Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Written by Gary North on February 18, 2017
Fifty years ago, I added a subtitle to the manuscript of my book, published the next year, Marx’s Religion of Revolution: The Doctrine of Creative Destruction (1968). I changed that subtitle two decades later in the revised edition: Regeneration Through Chaos. There was a doctrine of creative destruction in the 19th century. Karl Marx’s rival, […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 14, 2017
I received an email on January 12: thank you for recording and sharing the wonderful interview with Hayek from 1985. It’s recorded on mises.org website / part one here: https://mises.org/library/interview-friedrich-hayek-part-i and part two here: https://mises.org/library/interview-friedrich-hayek-part-ii . Actually, the interview is very important for my research. Hayek touches there notorious stuff, but from different angles than […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 10, 2016
We know about 3D printing. It is in its primitive phase. Think about this technology 30 years from now. Of course, your guess will look silly in retrospect — primitive. People invent things. They apply for patents. Governments issue them. They grant a monopoly of manufacture for about 15 years. The inventor can license his […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 20, 2016
John Maynard Keynes is most famous for two statements. This first appeared in the final paragraph of his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936). The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled […]
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By R. J. Rushdoony On July 26, 1969, it was my privilege to attend Dr. Hans Sennholz’s seminar on “The Dollar Crisis.” As Dr. Sennholz concluded his very able and intensely interesting account of our problem, he analyzed the decline of the paper dollar and the grim future and then concluded thus (to cite my […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 30, 2016
This is my presentation at Mises University, the week-long conference for undergraduates. It is sponsored yearly by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Here, I survey the remarkable legacy of Professor Mises. He hit many brick walls. None of them stopped him except death. He died on October 10, 1973. It seemed to be the low […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 28, 2016
So when even[ing] was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 14, 2016
And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow. And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 7, 2016
And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold (Gen. 13:2) The Hebrew word for silver is frequently translated as money. In biblical times, the precious metals served as money. They were also regarded as signs of wealth. Abram’s case is obvious. Abram was rich. The text tells us what his wealth […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 30, 2016
Fred Reed wrote a gem of a rhetorical essay, “Capitalism and the Minimum Wage: ‘I Got Mine, Screw You.’” I was so impressed that I stole it, almost word for word, changing only “capitalism” to “trade unionism.” Reed is a master of rhetoric. When his logic is sound, he is devastating — a model. The […]
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