Review of Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019) The Roman Empire is often presented as the fabric of Western civilization. The languages, laws, religion, mores, and implements of the Western political imaginary come in large part, in one way or another,
The standard history of post-Soviet Russia goes something like this. During the Soviet era, there were no real prices because of the Communists’ incessant, blanket meddling in economic activity. Nobody knew what anything was really worth. Not a loaf of bread, not a mine full of uranium. It was all owned and redistributed by the state. When the
Lenin called World War I a war among the capitalists of Europe. He was wrong. It was a war among oligarchs, statists who extract wealth from legitimate economic activity at the barrel of a gun. Original Article: “ The State: It’s Oligarchs All the Way Down “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher
Confucian Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi, Business Ethics, and Economic Development in Meiji Japan by John H. Sagers Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xvi + 245 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp) is an associate professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 22, no. 1 (Spring 2019), for
[Vladimir Bukovsky, tr. Alyona Kojevnikov, Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity (Ninth of November Press, 2019), 707 pages.] Few remember him today, for reasons that should unsettle us all, but Vladimir Bukovsky was a hero from a dark age whose example confirms Mises’s motto , taken from the Aeneid : “Do not give in to evil,
The number of COVID-19 cases in Japan had been showing a very low daily uptick until this past week. Suddenly, there were more than forty new cases a day, and the news is reporting that for most of those people the route of infection cannot be determined. The governor of Tokyo Koike Yuriko has been teleconferencing with the governors of
Ribatarianizumu: Amerika wo yurugasu jiyūshijōshugi (Libertarianism: The Ultrafreedomism Shaking Up America, published only in Japanese) Yasushi Watanabe Tokyo: Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2019 213 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan3@wisc.edu) is associate professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan. Libertarianism never really caught on in Japan. That is
Reseña de Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019) El Imperio romano se presenta a menudo como el tejido de la civilización occidental. Las lenguas, las leyes, la religión, las costumbres y los instrumentos del imaginario político occidental proceden en
La historia estándar de la Rusia postsoviética es algo así. Durante la época soviética, no había precios reales debido a la incesante y generalizada intromisión de los comunistas en la actividad económica. Nadie sabía lo que valía realmente nada. Ni una barra de pan, ni una mina llena de uranio. Todo era propiedad del Estado y lo redistribuía.
Vladimir Bukovsky, tr. Alyona Kojevnikov, Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity (Ninth of November Press, 2019), 707 páginas.] Pocos lo recuerdan hoy, por razones que deberían inquietarnos a todos, pero Vladimir Bukovsky fue un héroe de una época oscura cuyo ejemplo confirma el lema de Mises , tomado de la Eneida : «No te rindas
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