History
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Emergent Genius: The Case of Bill Evans
Great musical performance consists of at once learning all things and then forgetting all things to make something new. This is what Bill Evans did.
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Gresham’s Law Is Not the Reason for the Corruption of Democracy
Gresham’s Law is not the reason why the malicious field of politics attracts particularly awful people.
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Impeachment at Home and Climate Hysteria Abroad
Do we need another demonstration that politics is the problem and not the solution to human affairs?
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The Myth of Imminent Collapse
Worries about civilizational collapses by the Thunbergs and Extinction Rebellions of the world are exaggerated. We are nowhere near the brink of disaster.
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Reasons for Hope
The world would be a tiny bit less free and the economy faintly less productive without each of the many, mostly small, contributions to classical-liberal scholarship and to the sharing of liberal ideas with the public.
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James M. Buchanan: A Centenary Appreciation
Born on a Tennessee farm 100 years ago on October 3, Buchanan came of age when the ideas of John Maynard Keynes reached their zenith among economists.
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The Myth of Heroism
“History and human progress are driven far more by ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things than by special people with a unique destiny.” ~ Stephen Davies
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My Life as an Austrian Economist and a Classical Liberal
Economist Richard Ebeling reflects on his life and career, learning from and being colleagues with many of the greats, from Rand to Hayek to Morgenstern to Rothbard.
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Count Me Among the Fans of Downton Abbey
The real story of anarchy – life without the state – is not one of chaos but the opposite: our failing as a civilization is that we probably have an overly competent propensity to create social systems of control from which we end up having to rebel from time to time.
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Emergent Genius: The Case of Bill Evans
Great musical performance consists of at once learning all things and then forgetting all things to make something new. This is what Bill Evans did.
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Gresham’s Law Is Not the Reason for the Corruption of Democracy
Gresham’s Law is not the reason why the malicious field of politics attracts particularly awful people.
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•
Impeachment at Home and Climate Hysteria Abroad
Do we need another demonstration that politics is the problem and not the solution to human affairs?
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•
The Myth of Imminent Collapse
Worries about civilizational collapses by the Thunbergs and Extinction Rebellions of the world are exaggerated. We are nowhere near the brink of disaster.
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•
Reasons for Hope
The world would be a tiny bit less free and the economy faintly less productive without each of the many, mostly small, contributions to classical-liberal scholarship and to the sharing of liberal ideas with the public.
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•
James M. Buchanan: A Centenary Appreciation
Born on a Tennessee farm 100 years ago on October 3, Buchanan came of age when the ideas of John Maynard Keynes reached their zenith among economists.
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•
The Myth of Heroism
“History and human progress are driven far more by ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things than by special people with a unique destiny.” ~ Stephen Davies
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•
My Life as an Austrian Economist and a Classical Liberal
Economist Richard Ebeling reflects on his life and career, learning from and being colleagues with many of the greats, from Rand to Hayek to Morgenstern to Rothbard.
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•
Count Me Among the Fans of Downton Abbey
The real story of anarchy – life without the state – is not one of chaos but the opposite: our failing as a civilization is that we probably have an overly competent propensity to create social systems of control from which we end up having to rebel from time to time.