This is an election year and as in all past election years we are inundated with promises and proposals from candidates, each hoping to attract our votes. For the most part what they are promising is “leadership” and political ...
Some people may have missed it on their calendar, but May 5th was Karl Marx's birthday. It is worth recalling, also, that there was a time when Marx was an anti-communist.
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in ...
Popper, Hayek and the Open Society by Calvin Hayes (London/New York: Routledge, 2009); 284 pages.
Friedrich A. Hayek and Karl Popper were two of the most influential and internationally recognized critics of totalitarian collectivism in the 20th century. Hayek’s Road ...
Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory
by Robert Leonard, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2010); 390 pages.
Economist Oskar Morgenstern is best known as the co-developer, with mathematician John von Neumann, of game theory. Game theory emerged ...
On April 5, 2010, Richard Ebeling gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundations Economic Liberty Lecture Series. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
On April 5, 2010 Richard Ebeling gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech "The New Road to Serfdom and the Continuing Relevance of Austrian Economics" can viewed above in its ...
On June 2, 2007, Richard M. Ebeling gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
This speech was given at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s June 2007 conference, “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties” held in Reston, Virginia.
Transcript (PDF)
Richard M. Ebeling, former Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College ...
Shortly before his death in 1902, the great classical-liberal social philosopher Herbert Spencer penned an essay entitled “Imperialism and Slavery” that was included in a collection of his writings under the title Facts and Comments (1902). The theme of the ...
Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum (New York: Doubleday, 2003); 677 pages; $35.
Siberia. The word has had a chilling connotation for people around the world for 200 years. Long before Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, the ...