First published in 1912 ago, Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit makes this observation: “Gold is not an ideal basis for a monetary system. Like all human creations, the gold standard is not free from shortcomings; but in the existing circumstances there is no other way of emancipating the monetary system from the changing […]
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Australia’s Lorenzo Warby’s review of my Nietzsche and the Nazis. Intriguing sideways connection to Heidegger and militarism: Warby also reviews Brian Daizen Victoria’s Zen at War, “a study of how Zen Buddhism became deeply complicit in Japanese militarism,” just as Heidegger’s mystically-charged writings became complicit in German militarism. Warby there points to this piece by
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My list of the Top Ten issues the current fracas in Wisconsin has raised. 1. Is Wisconsin’s state budget deficit a problem that must be dealt with? Yes or No 2. Should changing the wages and benefits package of public school teachers be part of the solution to the deficit? Yes or No 3. Do
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I interviewed Dr. David R. Henderson after his talk at Rockford entitled “Seven Myths of Free Markets.” Professor Henderson teaches economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and is a research fellow with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Dr. Henderson also explains the surprising, true origin of “the dismal science.” For more about Professor
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In my role as CEE’s Executive Director, I interviewed guest speaker Professor Al Gini on leadership, after his talk on that theme at Rockford College. Dr. Gini is also the co-founder and Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly. For more from Dr. Gini, check out his many books, which include My Job My Self: Work
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For this year’s conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, I am organizing and chairing a session on two giants of the twentieth century — Friedrich Hayek and Ayn Rand — with four scholars comparing their views on values and political economy. Topic: Hayek and Rand on Values Chair: Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., Rockford College,
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Dr. David R. Henderson is an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a research fellow with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Professor Henderson is the author of The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey and the editor of the widely used Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He was previously a
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I attended a two-day conference at Wake Forest University on the Federal Reserve. The Fed is the U.S. central banking system and was founded in 1913 to replace the earlier National Banking System experiments that had been in place since the eighteenth century. I enjoyed a paper presented by George Selgin (University of Georgia) and
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