The latest additions to the Molinari Online Library are two early classics of the Austrian School: First: the 1893 English translation of Friedrich von Wieser’s 1889 treatise Natural Value . Wieser – student of Menger, brother-in-law of Böhm-Bawerk, and teacher of Hayek – was one of the founders of the Austrian tradition in economics. He’s
Two more additions to the Molinari Online Library : Stephen Pearl Andrews – disciple of Josiah Warren, sometime speechwriter for Victoria Woodhull, and an important influence on Benjamin Tucker – was an abolitionist, feminist, labour activist, individualist anarchist, and a leading proponent of “free love” – a term which in Andrews’ day denoted
The Journal of Libertarian Studies continues to bring you exciting cutting-edge scholarship in libertarian theory. Here’s what you’ll find in issue 20.3: One of the most popular contemporary arguments for the state comes from game theorists, who tend to model interaction without the state as a coordination problem which can be solved only by
How much insanity can you pack into a single paragraph? I think Thomas Friedman is a strong contender for the prize with this gem from a New York Times op-ed today (thanks to Sheldon Richman for the link): I want to take time on this Thanksgiving to thank God I live in a country where, despite so much rampant selfishness, the public schools still
In the wake of last Tuesday’s election results, there’s been some talk on the left about the possibility of the blue states seceding from the red states. Most of this talk has been tongue in cheek, but divisions in the country are deep enough right now that the idea of secession has a better chance of making headway now than it has had for a long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and Liberty & Power ] An interesting economic demographic from Charles Johnson: contrary to much Democratic hand-wringing and Republican gloating, it appears that Kerry won the working-class vote, even in the red states; and the wealthier a voter was, the likelier she apparently was to vote for Bush. Degree
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power ] Philosopher John Searle has recently argued that the progress of empirical science has now made possible a “new kind of philosophy” no longer beset by the skeptical doubts that worried Descartes and Hume. I agree that philosophers needn’t be troubled by such skeptical doubts, but I don’t think the case against
Just got back from a week in Paris, where inter alia I visited the gravesite of Gustave de Molinari, the 19th-century originator of free-market anarchism. For anyone planning a visit to Père Lachaise cemetery, Molinari’s grave isn’t on the official maps but I’ve posted directions for finding it here
( New to me , anyway.) Economists Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine have placed a draft of their book Against Intellectual Monopoly online here ; check it out.
Johan Ridenfeldt has kindly sent me some early Swedish encyclopedia entries on Gustave de Molinari (founder of free-market anarchism), along with his translations. I’ve posted them on the Molinari site . I love the description of Molinari as “the law of supply and demand made into
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.