Category Archives: History

Add Robin Hood to the List

By Josh Weil | Published: May 19, 2010
Back in the pre-industrial era, the easiest way to amass a large fortune was by stealing it. The most efficient way to steal from a large number of people is by taxing them. Politically privileged individuals went door-to-door and leeched of the peasantry. There were people that pushed back against these injustices. The oldest legend of Robin Hood portrays [...]
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Leninomics

By Josh Weil | Published: January 13, 2010
“All citizens are here transformed into hired employees of the state, which is made up of the armed workers… All that is required is that they should work equally, should regularly do their share of the work, and should receive equal pay. The accounting and control necessary for this have been simplified by capitalism to [...]
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RIP Yegor Gaidar

By Charlie Deist | Published: December 16, 2009
“A reformer is never happy.” –Professor Konstantin Magin Yegor Gaidar, one of the architects of early pro-market reform in Russia, has passed away. He and other reformers faced massive challenges that put our own recession into perspective. One of the challenges Gaidar faced was the privatization of state owned enterprises which were under the iron fist [...]
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Ludwig Von Mises

By Josh Weil | Published: December 14, 2009
At Radical Ignorance, I often cite Hayek while largely ignoring other Austrian economists. That’s due to the simple fact I haven’t studied Rothbard, Mises, Menger, Hazlit, etc. with much depth. As a collective introduction, here is a piece by Art Carden on the importance and relevance of Ludwig Von Mises. “Man acts.” – Ludwig Von Mises
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