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My mother-in-law was telling me another day about the documentary that she had seen about the textile industry around the turn of 20th century. The documentary had to do with the famous factory fire, but that wasn't what caught my attention. She mentioned that people wanted to work 8-hour days and...
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I am looking for a history of private Libraries made open-to-the-public (any/all countries). I remember reading a partial history of (if I recall) 19th century America by Rothbard on this topic, but it was only a paragraph or two long. Can you recommend literature which contains a history of private...
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Like some of you, I am a regular listener of Stephan Molyneux's youtube videos. Often while discussing war I have heard him make the claim that World War I wiped out all of the capital accumulated in the 19th century. While I have no doubt that it was a supremely destructive war, this is quite a...
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Anybody have one on hand? Thanks, Luis.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/weekinreview/21uchitelle.html Read the article, and let me know what you think.
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Friedrich von Hayek, the Austrian émigré and University of Chicago professor whose 1944 Road to Serfdom dared to suggest that state planning would produce not "freedom and prosperity" but "bondage and misery, " visited Pinochet’s Chile a number of times. He was...
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Open letter to Thomas M Schmidt: Your interesting article/course lecture published at http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/schmidt6.html titled “Programming the 21 st Century” reminded me of a philosophy course lecture I attended in 1960 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. With no prior indication...