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For us (2006), it was about 10 short answer questions. Some were one word answers, others were 1-3 sentences.
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MVPT, Mises clearly supported secession. In the quote you refer to, Mises is specifically talking about how empire-building (expanding a states' borders) confers no benefit on anyone except the state, which can expand its taxing authority. Otherwise people have to buy and sell everything they need, just like before. Politically, however, he supported
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[quote user="MacFall"] Regarding the OP: Cato is primarily a "political" or "right" libertarian organization, whereas the Mises Institute is non-political and tends toward left-libertarianism (where the word left means "radical" - not "Marxist"). [/quote] If you define left and right as you do, then
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They've been releasing these summaries for a while. But you'll notice that, for example, the "minutes" for the meeting on Jan. 30-31 2007 weren't released until Feb. 21. Additionally the minutes themselves don't actually tell you what happened and who said what minute-by-minute in the meeting, it's just a general summary
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This guy got my address somehow, and sent me a thick packet of the rantings on his website. He seems obsessed and thinks he can get his ideas noticed by stalking people and being belligerent. If he wasn't emotionally imbalanced, he would clarify, improve, and refine his ideas so that someone, whether the QJAE, a mainstream journal, or otherwise
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The Cato Institute is not monolithic, just like the Mises Institute. It's funny, Mises gets attacked by the beltway crowd all the time for being anti-immigrant when Walter Block, one of the most veteran members of Mises, is explicitly open borders. Brink Lindsey of Cato was for the Iraq War, but he wasn't and isn't part of the foreign policy
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It really doesn't make any sense. Capital accumulation leads to higher worker productivity, which leads to higher wages (if workers were paid any less than their productivity another firm could profitably offer them a higher wage; if they were paid more than their productivity, the firm would go out of business) and more wealth in the world. The
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He clearly does not understand the business cycle and how inflation hurts the middle and lower classes the most. The business cycle is created when artificially low interest rates created by the federal reserve encourage malinvestment, which then must be liqudated when it becomes clear the investments are not profitable. In other words, artificially
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Also: For the pre-revolutionary period, I recommend Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fisher. Check out Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy by William Watkins for the history of the Jeffersonian states' rights tradition. As I'm sure you know, one of the
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I going to grad school for early American history next year and I'm putting together a list myself. Some suggestions: Essays in the History of Liberty: Selected Essays by Lord Acton - Lord Acton was the greatest classical liberal historian in the 19th century. He covers many topics. For a concise overview of the Revolution, try The American Revolution