All Posts Tagged With: "nationalism"
In Praise of Hard Industries
Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. The subtitle of this book reads: Why manufacturing, not the information economy, is the key to future prosperity. That tells me that the author thinks himself capable of central economic planning at the macro level, knowing as he does what economic formula will lead to “prosperity.” [...]
1Aug2000 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Thomas Friedman has written a very surprising book. Surprising not in what he has written, but in that Thomas Friedman wrote it. Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, and is probably known to readers of Ideas on Liberty as a moderately “liberal” establishment journalist. He is certainly not known as [...]
1Aug2000 | Robert A. Lawson | 0 comments | ContinuedWilliam E. Rappard: An International Man in an Age of Nationalism
Richard Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College. On April 1, 1947, 35 free-market economists, political scientists, philosophers, journalists, and businessmen met at the Swiss Alpine resort of Mont Pèlerin. They had been brought together by F. A. Hayek to found a society of [...]
1Jan2000 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedFantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Princeton University Press • 1998 • 216 pages • $29.95 David Prychitko studied the former Yugoslav system on a Fulbright grant in 1989, and currently heads the department of economics at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. He is co-editor, with Nevenka Cuckovic, of a collection of classic articles by Mises and Hayek, translated into Croatian. [...]
1Mar1999 | David L. Prychitko | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Economics Of War
Dr. Mises is Visiting Professor of Economies at New York University. This is abridged From a chapter of his book, Human Action (Yale University Press, 1949. 881 pages, $10.00). The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another. The [...]
1Nov1955 | Ludwig von Mises | 1 comment | Continued-
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