[ A History of Money and Banking in the United States (2002)] “William Jennings Bryan and his pietist coalition seized control of the Democratic Party at the momentous convention of 1896. The Democratic Party was never to be the same again.” Orthodox economic historians attribute the triumph of William Jennings Bryan in the Democratic convention
[ An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)] In contrast to Great Britain, the German-speaking countries were predictably highly resistant to the spread of Smithian views. They had been ruled, ever since the late 16th century, by cameralism. Cameralists, named after the German royal treasure chamber, the Kammer,
[ Conceived in Liberty (1975). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] Roger Williams arrived in England at the moment of Puritan victory and at the peak of the revolutionary intellectual ferment. The great libertarian Leveller movement was at the peak of its influence, and religious freedom had
[ Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , volume 2, chapter 3: “James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System.”] The theory of class conflict as a key to political history did not begin with Karl Marx. It began, as we shall see further below, with two leading French libertarians inspired by J.B. Say, Charles Comte (Say’s
[This originally appeared as “The Editor Rebuts,” in the February 1973 edition of The Libertarian Forum .] First, I should like to make it clear, to Dr. Hospers and to his many admirers, that I have nothing but the greatest esteem for him, both as a friend and as the outstanding theorist and spokesman for the “limited archy” wing of the
[A Selection from Libertarian Review , August 1978.] If victory is indeed our given end, an end given to us by the requirements of justice, then we must strive to achieve that end as rapidly as we can. But this means that libertarians must not adopt gradualism as part of their goal; they must wish to achieve liberty as early and as rapidly as
[Excerpted from The Man versus the State , 1884] Most of those who now pass as Liberals are Tories of a new type. This is a paradox which I propose to justify. That I may justify it, I must first point out what the two political parties originally were; and I must then ask the reader to bear with me while I remind him of facts he is familiar with,
Taking for granted the fact that the hippie was part of a diverse group we called “hippies” who, in his varied states of mind, could not be counted upon to think or act like other hippies, there was, and still is, a certain type of hippie, a “hippie with a philosophy,” who actually lived the communal life. The philosophy of the communal hippie was
Barron’s April 19, 1999 An excerpt from: Power Corrupts One of Vice President Al Gore’s many crusades is his campaign to “root out corruption and cronyism.” Announcing an international conference in Washington to address corruption, he explained, “Tragically, our best worldwide efforts to build stronger economies and stronger democracies are
The great debate between Capitalism and Socialism has been settled, but we continue to experience an ever-expanding management of the U.S. economy, which itself is a form of socialism. Mises wrote in Socialism : “It is the aim of Socialism to transfer the means of production from private ownership to the ownership of the State.” Socialism, as
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