All Posts Tagged With: "Murray Rothbard"

Mises on Copyrights

The widespread reproduction and “sharing” of copyrighted music on the Internet led a friend to ask me what Ludwig von Mises would have thought about the situation. The more I pondered the question, the more I concluded that Mises would have considered this just another case where copyright law must play catch-up with new technology. [...]

1Jun2004 | | 2 comments | Continued

Capital Letters

Two Libertarianisms To the Editor: Jim Peron, in “Are There Two Libertarianisms?” (June 2001), sees moralism and consequentialism as two sides of a coin. He writes, “A free society is not only right but it works.” Surely there is mutual support between them. Nonetheless, there is a fundamental divide as to primacy. Moralism aims at [...]

1Oct2001 | | 0 comments | Continued

Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism by Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Penn State Press · 2000 · 496 pages · $65.00 cloth; $24.00 paperback Reviewed by James Otteson This book is the third in a trilogy from Chris Matthew Sciabarra. The other two were his Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (SUNY, 1995) and Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State, 1995). The project of Total Freedom is [...]

1Oct2001 | | 0 comments | Continued

America’s Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard

Ludwig von Mises Institute · 2000 · 368 pages · $29.00 Reviewed by Roger W. Garrison It may not be conventional to review the fifth edition of a book that appears several years after its author’s passing. But America’s Great Depression is not a conventional book. It is written with verve and aplomb. And its [...]

1Sep2001 | | 1 comment | Continued

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays by Murray Rothbard, edited by David Gordon

Ludwig von Mises Institute • 2000 • 321 pages • $15.00 paperback Young students of music, if they are at all serious about the subject, must sooner or later be introduced to Bach. Whatever else one might play or study, music without Bach would be terribly incomplete. Older musicians understand that they must introduce the [...]

1Jul2001 | | 1 comment | Continued

Patents and Monopoly Privilege

Christopher Mayer is a commercial loan officer and freelance writer. “Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but [...]

1Oct2000 | | 1 comment | Continued

Austrian Inflation, Austrian Money, and Federal Reserve Policy

Richard Timberlake is a retired professor of economics and author of Monetary Policy in the United States: An Intellectual and Institutional History (University of Chicago Press). Joseph Salerno’s essay in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, October 1999, extensively criticized the series of three articles I had published in previous issues of the magazine.[1] I find [...]

1Sep2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

Inflation and Money: A Reply to Timberlake

Joseph Salerno is a professor of economics in the Lubin School of Business at the Pace University. In his reply to my October 1999 Freeman: Ideas on Liberty article, Richard Timberlake fails to address or misconstrues most of the substantive issues I raised in my comment on his earlier three articles. Space constraints, however, permit [...]

1Sep2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

Trade and the Rise of Freedom

Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. This is adapted from a paper presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference on “’The History of Liberty” at Auburn University, January 29, 2000. It is no exaggeration to say that trade is the keystone of modern civilization. As Murray Rothbard wrote, “The [...]

1Jun2000 | | 2 comments | Continued

Mere Isolationism: The Foreign Policy of the Old Right

One of the “lost causes” to which libertarians are attached—and one of the most important—is that of the “isolationist” Old Right. As used by the late Murray Rothbard, among others, the term “Old Right” refers to a loose coalition opposed to the New Deal in both its domestic and foreign aspects. While not following a [...]

1Feb2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

Hands Off

A Microsoft study from November 1997 reveals that the company could have charged $49 for an upgrade to Windows 98—there is no reason to believe that the $49 price would have been unprofitable—but the study identifies $89 as the revenue-maximizing price. Microsoft thus opted for the higher price. Thus wrote U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield [...]

1Feb2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

States’ Rights and Freedom

To the Editor: Gene Healy represents a disturbing trend among some libertarians to nostalgically recall the good old days when states were bastions of freedom. Those days never existed; and as James Madison depicts them in Federalist No. 10, even at the founding they were such bastions of tyranny that a stronger national government was [...]

1Feb2000 | | 3 comments | Continued

Money and Gold in the 1920s and 1930s: An Austrian View

Joseph Salerno is a professor of economics in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. In consecutive issues of The Freeman, Richard Timberlake has contributed an interesting trilogy of articles advancing a monetarist critique of the conduct of U.S. monetary policy during the 1920s and 1930s.[1] In the first of these articles, Timberlake disputes [...]

1Oct1999 | | 7 comments | Continued

Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System

Bert Ely is a financial institutions and monetary policy consultant in Alexandria, Virginia. This is a book on a vital—and much misunderstood—topic. It is sometimes excellent, but largely disappointing. The book consists of 13 chapters divided into three sections: The History of the Modern International Monetary System, Modern Money and Central Banking, and Foundations for [...]

1Jun1999 | | 1 comment | Continued

Money in the 1920s and 1930s

Richard Timberlake is a professor of economics retired from the University of Georgia, and author of Monetary Policy in the United States, An Intellectual and Institutional History (University of Chicago Press, 1993). This article is the first in a series. One of the most enduring and troublesome mysteries in economics is money: how it is [...]

1Apr1999 | | 3 comments | Continued

Defining State and Society

Two of the most important concepts in any discussion of liberty are state and society. But it is often far from clear what any given person means by those terms. Part of the confusion stems from the fact that the definitions can shift dramatically depending upon the theoretical approach of the speaker. Virtually all individualists [...]

1Apr1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

Vienna and Chicago: A Tale of Two Schools

Since its inception, the Foundation for Economic Education has been associated with two free-market schools, the Austrian school of Ludwig von Mises and, to a lesser extent, the Chicago school of Milton Friedman. Mises, after leaving Vienna for New York City, was closely involved with Leonard Read, FEE’s founder. He spoke frequently at FEE’s headquarters in Irvington-on-Hudson, and wrote regularly for The Freeman.

1Feb1998 | | 2 comments | Continued
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