The Digital Library of Liberty & Power
incorporating the Guillaumin Collection of the Great Books of Liberty
In the coming academic year I will be leading an online discussion on Hayek and Spontaneous Order which is part of a series of Discussion Colloquia for graduate students organised by the Institute for Humane Studies. In this discussion we will focus on the work of a leading classical liberal whose work has become “canonical” … Read more
Zombie Economics A couple of years ago (July 2018) I gave a talk at a Students for Liberty conference on “Zombie Economics” with particular reference to the Marxist “manifestation” of this intellectual beast which refuses to die, no matter how many times it has been “killed” (intellectually speaking of course). It has been the revolutionary … Read more
Being a mischievous sort of chap, when I first came across the name Hearn gave his book I immediately thought it must have been a scientific study of Walt Disney’s cartoon character “Pluto the Pup”. The connection between Pluto and wealth or money was rather tenuous until I came across this image of Disney play … Read more
The important although little known Australian classical liberal Bruce Smith (1851–1937) was one of the very few voices in Australia arguing for a radical and consistent liberalism in opposition to the statist (i.e. interventionist) version of liberalism which was home-grown in the colonies and the equally interventionist “New Liberalism” which was being imported from Britain. … Read more
“ A Parallel Edition of Ludwig von Mises on Economic Calculation under Socialism (1920) “ with versions of the article in German (facs. PDF and HTML), the Adler English translation, his expansion of his argument into the book Die Gemeinwirtschaft (Socialism) (1922) also in German and English. 2020 is the 100th anniversary of the publication … Read more