[Transcribed from Economic Freedom (mp3, 1:09'48") . Robert A. Lawson . Economic Freedom of the World, 2009 Annual Report .] So the great debate was, [in] our context: if you have economic freedom, does it work or does it not work? I mean, I don't know why we need to argue until three in...
X : Yes, one right at the back, red tie, just underneath the cabinet rack. Terry Easton : Thank you, that's an Adam Smith tie, eh, at the Adam Smith Foundation. Thank you Dr. Bernanke. I really appreciate as we all do your challenge in dealing with the systemic financial systems crisis. I'm Terry...
My topic is Marxist and Austrian class analysis. I want to do the following: first, I will present a series of theses that constitute the hard-core of the Marxist theory of history. I claim that all of them are essentially correct. And then I will show these true theses are derived in Marxism from a...
My first public appearance as a speaker in the United States took place more than two decades ago here in New York City, in 1986, at the first major Mises Institute conference, held to celebrate Murray Rothbard's sixtieth birthday. And so I am particularly pleased to be back here. Now, let me begin...
-- go back to the Garden of Eden. (laughter) (applause) They didn't have microphones then at that time, but what they did have was a superabundance of goods, and if you have a superabundance of goods then it is impossible that human beings have any conflicts with each other, because what should they...
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