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Subject Index
A
1960s
civil-rights movement, 289
Great Society welfare programs, 102
judicial innovation, 111
student revolts at L.S.E., 335
1970s
Barry’s experiences of, 17, 19, 20
Baxendale’s experience in Britain, 24
Ecuador’s economic problems, 95
1980s
Barry’s characterization of, 22
Denmark, 175
Margaret Thatcher, 24
1984 (Orwell), 152
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible (JG), 326
Affirmative action
Yates on, 390
Yates’s personal experience with, 389
The Affluent Society (Galbraith), 15
Agricultural economics, funding sources and academic inquiry, 251, 257
Agricultural policy, Pasour on, 256
Ahiakpor, James C.W., 1–4
Aix-en-Provence, Falque experience with, 118
Alaska, Schoolland’s experience in, 325
Allen, Donald H., influence on Lowi, 201
America. See United States of America
Anarchism, Roderick Long on, 199
Anarchism (Chapman and Pennock ed.), 224
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Nozick), 236, 249
Angell, Wayne, influence on Gwartney, 135
Anti-communism, Salerno, 306
Anti-discrimination laws, Edelstein on, 115
Antitrust & Monopoly: Anatomy of a Public Policy Failure (Armentano), 10
Antitrust laws, Armentano on, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12
Apostel, Leo, influence on van Dun, 367, 370
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint
Chua on influence of, 226, 227
on the state, 345
Yates on, 394
Argentina, Chafuen and Peronism, 83
Aristotle
influence on Schall, 318, 320, 322
influence on Sobran, 341
Arlington House, Rockwell on, 290, 291
Armentano, Dom T.
autobiography, 5–13
influence on Cordato, 90
Armentano, Paul, 13
The Armstrong Circle Theater, influence on Armentano, 6
Army, Ron Paul’s life in, 259
Atlas Economic Research Foundation, de Ampuero’s experience with, 96
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 21, 45, 67, 73, 81, 122, 197, 217, 280, 282, 305
Auburn, Roderick Long’s experience at, 200
Autobiography of an Economist (Robbins), 31
B
Baird, Charles W., 14–16
Barnett, Randy, influence on Benson, 43
Barry, Norman, 17–23
Baxendale, Toby, 24–32
Beaird, Paul, Caplan’s conversation with, 75
Beck, Lewis White, influence on Mack, 223
Becker, Gary, Block’s studies with, 53
Bell, Daniel, influence on Edelstein, 110
Bennett, James T., 32–36
Benson, Bruce L.
assistance to Holcombe, 157
autobiography, 36–44
Berger, Peter L., influence on Wortham, 380
Bergland, David, 44–50
Bermuda, Stewart’s life in, 346–348
BEW (Bureau of Economic Warfare), Bettina Bien Greaves’s experience in, 129–31
Bible, North on economics and, 246
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (Gutman), 194
Black identity, Wortham on, 380
Block, Walter
autobiography, 51–55
comments made to Chua, 229
diagnosing Ahiakpor as an Austrian, 4
DiLorenzo’s friendship with, 104
influence on Cowen (Tyler), 93
influence on Walters, 373
Kurrild-Klitgaard’s encounter with, 179
Bluestone, Barry, influence on Salerno, 313
Blumert, Burton S., 55–58
Boettke, Peter, 58–66
Bostaph, Sam, 66–70
Boston College, student boycott, 309
Bouillon, Hardy, 70–73
Bowman, Ward, influence on Edelstein, 112
Branden, Barbara, fire safety and
Bergland, 46
Branden, Nathaniel
Bergland’s contact with, 46
Block’s meeting with, 52
Bostaph’s meeting with, 68
influence on Wortham, 383
Breit, William, influence on Baird, 15
Brennan, Geoffrey, influence on Caplan, 80
Britain
Baxendale’s experience in, 24–28
entry into the EEC, 22
Sir Keith Joseph and the liberalization of the British economy, 27
British Conservative Party, Baxendale’s experience with, 27
Brittan, Samuel, influence on Barry, 20
Broadcast News, influence on Hasnas, 152
Bronx, Tuccille’s life growing up in, 356
Brown, Hermione, on contracts, 112
Buchanan, James
influence on Holcombe, 156
influence on Pasour, 253
Buchanan, Pat, Rockwell and, 300, 302
Buckley, James (Jim) L., influence on Cordato, 89
Buckley, William F. (Jr.)
on Hammarskjöld, 145
influence on Machan, 216
influence on Sobran, 341
Bureau of Economic Warfare (BEW), Bettina Bien Greaves’s experience in, 129–31
Bureaucracy (Mises), 34
Burke, Edmund, influence on Sechrest, 330
Business cycle, Hayek’s role in reformulating, 30
Business ethics
as a topic for gathering rents, 23
Kuhn’s course, 33
C
The Calculus of Consent (Buchanan and Tullock), 156
Calewaert, Willy, influence on van Dun, 367
Capitalism, thoroughbred racing as an example of, 315
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Rand), 91, 327
Capitalism & Freedom (Friedman), 15, 324
Capitalism and Permissive Society (Brittan), 20
Caplan, Bryan, 73–82
Catholic schools, influence on Armentano, 5
Catholics
Dignitatis Humanae, 228
influence on Thornton, 353
and Machan, 217
and Protestants in Northern Ireland, 18
and Vietnam war, 308
Cato Institute
founding of, 48
influence on Formaini, 123
LP, 49
CCNY (City College of New York), minority student takeover of, 195
Chafuen, Alejandro, 82–85
Chapin, Dwight, North’s contact with, 240
Character, Ron Paul on the importance of, 261
Chesterton, G.K.
influence on Schall, 317
Sobran on, 340
Chicago School, Kitzner on, 252
Childs, Roy, influence on Ostrowski, 249
China
Salerno on, 307
Tullock on, 361
Tullock’s experience in, 360
Chodorov, Frank, Liggio’s conversations with, 188
Christianity
Caplan’s deconversion, 75
libertarianism, 87
North on Bible and economics, 246
Reformed Church of America, 159
Sobran on, 344
Wayne Roy and religion in schools, 241
Yates and, 386
Yates on, 392–396
Chronicles, influence on McCarthy (Daniel), 214
Chua, Soo Meng Jude, 226–229
Chuchai, David, Machan on the suicide of, 221
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, influence on Rockwell, 288
Citadel, Market and Altar (Chamberlain), 209
City College of New York (CCNY), minority student takeover of, 195
Civil-rights movement
Rockwell on, 289
Civil War, Ron Paul on the effects of, 264
Civil Wrongs (Yates), 391
Cleveland, Grover, Lawrence Reed’s favorite U.S. president, 271
Coal industry, unionism in Britain, 24
Coase’s theorem, North on, 245
Colburn, Brooks, 86
Cold War, Rothbard on, 310
Comanescu, Dan Cristian, 86–89
Common good, Edelstein on, 116
Common law
Edelstein on, 113
Hasnas on, 153
and political organization, 111
Communist system, Baxendale’s views on, 26
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN), 396
Competition and Entrepreneurship, 253
Complaining as on honorable undertaking, Machan on, 216
Conceived in Liberty (Rothbard), 187, 192
The Concept of Law (Hart), 18
Connecticut. See State of Connecticut
Conscience of a Conservative (Goldwater), 357, 381
Conservatism
and Kirk: Rockwell on, 290
McCarthy (Daniel) on, 213
The Conservative Mind (Kirk), 290
Constitution of Liberty (Hayek), 28
Constitutional law
Rothbard on, 343
Sobran on, 342
Contracts, Hermione Brown on, 112
Cooper, Michael, influence on Barry, 20
Cordato, Roy
autobiography, 89
influence on Armentano, 13
Couch, W.T., North on, 242
Council for a Competitive Economy, 378
Cowen, Jim, influence on Klein, 174
Cowen, Tyler
autobiography, 92
influence on Caplan, 79
Klein’s friendship with, 171–74
Cox, Jim, 91
Craniacs, 49
Crane, Edward (Ed), Armentano’s work with, 9
Creed of Nicea, Hospers on, 160
Crime control and prevention. See Judicial system
CSN (Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional), 396
Cultural destructionism and the family, 300
Culyer, Tony, influence on Barry, 20
D
Danto, Arthur, Edelstein on, 110
Davis, Reed, influence on Boettke, 60
De Ampuero, Dora, 94–97
De Coster, Karen, 98–101
De Roover, Raymond, Liggio on, 189
Delatour, Leslie, Lawrence Reed’s meeting with, 272
Democracy and Decision (Brennan and Lomasky), 80
Denmark
Kurrild-Klitgaard’s life growing up in, 175
libertarian emergence in, 178
The Department of Economics at the University of Virginia (Tipton), 34
Depression, Ron Paul on, 265
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hume), 160
Dickens, Bill, influence on Caplan, 78
Dignitatis Humanae, 228
DiLorenzo, Thomas J.
autobiography, 101–04
Bennett’s meeting with, 35
Dirlam, Joel, influence on Armentano, 6
Douglass, Frederick, influence on Wortham, 381
E
Economic freedom index, 184
Economic Models and Methodology (Holcombe), 157
Economically Speaking, Armentano’s appearance on, 10
Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt), 288, 346
Ecuador
dollarization, 97
root cause of economic problems in 1970s, 95
Edelstein, Michael
autobiography, 104–106
influence on Pelusi, 268
EEC (European Economic Community), Britain’s entry into, 22
Egalitarianism, Yates on, 387
English courses, Halliday’s opinion of, 139
Envy, Schall on, 322
Epstein, Richard A., 106–16
Erhard, Ludwig, influence on Barry, 22
The Essential von Mises (Rothbard), 397
Estoppel legal principle, 168
Ethics. See also Business ethics
Ethics of Liberty (Rothbard), 86, 88, 226
European Economic Community (EEC), Britain’s entry into, 22
Evolutionary psychology, Edelstein on, 114
F
Fabian socialism, Ahiakpor’s experience with, 2
Falque, Max, 117–20
Family and cultural destructionism, 300
Farm programs, Pasour on, 256
The Fatal Conceit (Hayek), 28, 29
FEE. See Foundation for Economic Education
Financial Times, Barry’s views on, 20
Fink, Richard, influence on Cowen (Tyler), 93
Flood legends, Yates on, 388
FME (free market environmentalism), influence on Falque, 119, 121
For a New Liberty (Rothbard), 47, 74
Formaini, Robert, 121–23
Fort Lewis (Washington), Benson’s experience in, 38
Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
influence on Reed (Lawrence), 269
North on, 244
Wilcke’s experience with, 376
The Fountainhead (Rand), 5, 152, 380, 387
France, Falque’s life experience in, 117
Franklin, Benjamin, influence on Wortham’s father, 382
The Free Market, 296
Free market environmentalism (FME), influence on Falque, 119, 121
Free Nation Foundation, 200
The Freeman
influence on Falque, 188
influence on Lawson, 182
influence on Liggio, 103
influence on Reisman, 277
influence on Riggenbach, 286
influence on Wilcke, 376
French, Douglas E., 124–27
Friedman, David, influence on Cordato, 90
Friedman, Milton
influence on Armentano, 6
influence on Baird, 15
influence on DiLorenzo, 103
influence on Gwartney, 137
influence on Schoolland, 324
The Fundamental Principle of Law (van Dun), 369
G
Galambos, Andrew J.
friendship with Lowi, 200–05
influence on Klassen, 170
MacCallum on, 210
Mises’s influence on, 202
North on, 242
Galbraith, John Kenneth, and Baird, 15
Gapism, Schall on, 321
Garrison, Roger
influence on Baxendale, 30
influence on Holcombe, 157
George Mason University, economics department, 34
Ghana, socialist experiment, 1, 3
Ginsburg, Eli, Bennett’s experience with, 33
Giving versus sharing, 317
Gladstone, William Ewert, hero of Reed (Lawrence), 271
God, Roark on, 217
Goldwater, Barry
influence on De Coster, 98
influence on Salerno, 307
influence on Tuccille, 357
influence on Wilcke, 375
influence on Wortham, 381
Nolan’s support for, 238
Gordon, Donald, influence on Gwartney, 136
Government
Reisman on competing governments, 282
Ron Paul on the nature of, 261, 263, 265
Great Depression. See Depression
Great Society welfare programs, DiLorenzo on, 102
Greaves, Bettina Bien, 128–34
Greaves, Percy L., Jr.
assisting Baxendale understand Mises, 29
Bettina Bien Greaves experience with, 132–34
Greed, Schall on, 322
Grinder, Walter
Block’s relationship with, 54
influence on Cowen (Tyler), 93
influence on Klein, 174
Grove City College (GCC), Halliday’s experience at, 138
Gun control, Benson’s research on, 42
Gutman, Herbert, and Liggio, 194
Gwartney, James (Jim)
autobiography, 135–37
influence on Holcombe, 157
H
Hale, Nathan, “My country right or wrong, . . .”, 91
Halliday, Roy, 138–140
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 145
Hammer, Richard, Roderick Long’s involvement with, 199
Hamowy, Ronald, 141–47
Hancock, Ernest, 147–49
Hand formula, Edelstein on, 113
Harper, Floyd Arthur (Baldy)
influence on MacCallum, 208
influence on North, 242
Hart, H.L.A., influence on Barry, 18
Hasnas, John, 149–54
Hayek, F.A.
influence on Baird, 16
influence on Barry, 19
influence on Baxendale, 28
influence on Boettke, 61
influence on Bouillon, 70
influence on Hamowy, 144–47
influence on Mack, 225
influence on Nolan, 238
influence on Pasour, 252
influence on Shearmur, 335, 337
influence on van Dun, 365
influence on Zanella, 397
Liggio’s meeting with, 193
meeting with Barry, 21
Shearmur on, 338
Hazlitt, Henry
Hospers’s exchanges with, 163
influence on Armentano, 6
influence on Rockwell, 288
influence on Stewart, 346
Health care, Edelstein on, 116
Heath, Edward, trade union power, 24
Heath, Spencer, influence on MacCallum, 205–07, 208, 210
Hedonism, Yates on, 392
Heinlein, Robert, influence on Nolan, 238
Hess, Karl
influence on Nolan, 239
influence on Tuccille, 357
High, Jack, influence on Holcombe, 156
Hippie life in Denmark, Kurrild-Klitgaard on, 176
Hobbes, Thomas, Narveson on, 236
Hoggan, David, North on, 242
Hoiles, R.C., influence on Bergland, 46
Holcombe, Randall G., 154–57
Homosexuality, Yates on, 395
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann
and Chua, 228
influence on Kinsella, 168
Hospers, John
autobiography, 158–66
influence on Caplan, 74
Libertarian Party, 47
Huemer, Michael, influence on Caplan, 76
Human Action (Mises), 29, 45, 103, 122, 139, 155, 241, 297
Hume, David, influence on Hospers, 160
Hungary, Machan’s early life in, 215
I
Income tax, effect of state income tax on economic growth rates, 11
The Incredible Bread Machine, 325
Indexes, economic freedom index, 184
Institut d’études politique (Sciences Po), intellectual life of, 117
Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) founding of, 209
Shearmur’s experience with, 336
Institute for the Study of Market Agriculture (ISMA), 254
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), 20
Instituto Ecuatorian de Economía Politica (IEEP), 96
Intergroup relations movement, Wortham on, 379
International Center for Research on Environmental Issues (ICREI), 120
Interventionism, Shearmur on, 338
The Invisible Hand in Economics and Politics (Barry), 20
Iowa, Hospers’s family history in, 158
Iraq war
influence on De Coster, 100
Rockwell on, 301
Ireland, welfare state, Catholics and Protestants, 18
J
Jefferson, Thomas, influence on Ron Paul, 261
Jesus, influence on Klassen, 170
Jewish life, Hasnas on, 150
Jewkes, John, influence on Barry, 19
John Birch Society (JBS)
Blumert on, 56
Rockwell on, 288
John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy, 35
Joseph, Sir Keith, liberalisation of the British economy, 27
Journal of Libertarian Studies (JLS), 41
Judicial system
Benson’s research on, 42
Civil Rights Act (1964), 289
Edelstein and, 108–16
guild-like practices, 27
legal history, 188
natural rights, 223
police power and individual liberty, 231–33
Juurikala, Oskari, influence on Chua, 226
K
Kafka, Franz, influence on MacCallum, 206
Kamath, Shyam, Ahiakpor’s views on, 4
Kelley, David
discussion of, 75
Kinsella’s correspondence with, 167
Kerekes, Tibor, influence on Liggio, 188
Keynes, John Maynard, Hayek’s criticism of, 30
Kinsella, Stephan, 166–69
Kipling, Rudyard, Chesterton on, 340
Kirk, Russel
influence on De Coster, 98
Rockwell on, 290
Kirzner, Israel
Bostaph’s correspondence with, 69
Klassen, Robert, 170
Klein, Daniel (Dan)
autobiography, 171–75
Pasour’s involvement with, 257
Koch, Charles
Armentano’s work with, 9
Rockwell on, 296
Koch Foundation, 297
Koether, George, assistance to Wortham, 384
Kroszner, Randy, Klein’s friendship with, 173
Kuhn, James W., influence on Bennett, 33
Kuhn, Thomas S., influence on Yates, 388
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter, 175–81
Kurtz, Paul, teacher of Mack, 223
L
Lavoie, Don
influence on Boettke, 63
influence on de Ampuero, 95
Law, Legislation, and Liberty (Hayek), 225
Laws. See also Antitrust laws
Lawson, Robert, 182–84
Legal system. See Antitrust laws; Judicial system
Lewin, Peter, influence on Sechrest, 330
LewRockwell.com (LRC)
influence on McCarthy (Daniel), 214
Napolitano on, 234
Liberal racism, 379
Liberalism, Sobran on, 342
The Libertarian Idea (Narveson), 236
Libertarian movement
factions in, 249
Rockwell on, 291 Libertarian Party (LP)
Bergland’s experience with, 47, 50
Blumert’s experience with, 57
Rockwell on, 299
Victor on, 372
Libertarianism: A Political Philosophy for Tomorrow (Hospers), 74
Liberty Amendment Committee, Nolan’s involvement in, 238
Liberty Fund, Mack’s involvement with, 225
Liberty versus license, Yates on, 392
Liggio, Leonard P.
autobiography, 185–96
influence on Benson, 43
Literature of Liberty, 196
Locke, John, influence on Chua and Rothbard, 226
Lomasky, Loren, influence on Caplan, 80
London School of Economics (L.S.E), student revolts in 1960s, 335
Long, Jorie Blair, influence on Roderick Long, 197
Long, Roderick T., 197–200
Louisiana, Kinsella growing up in, 166
Lowi, Alvin, Jr., 200–05
LP. See Libertarian Party
LRC. SeeLewRockwell.com
M
MacCallum, Spencer Heath, 205–12
Machan, Tibor R., 215–22
Mack, Eric, 222–25
Man, Economy, and State (Rothbard), 45, 54, 143
Marginal cost pricing, Pasour on, 253
Marine Corps, Bostaph’s experience in, 67
Marion, General Francis, influence on Ruwart, 305
Market Process (Lavoie), 63
Marxists, van Dun on, 367
Master lease form as a community
constitution, 211
Maytag, Fred, on Roosevelt’s election in 1936, 159
McCaffrey, Neil, influence on Rockwell, 291
McCarthy, Daniel, 213–15
McCarthy, Joseph (Joe), Rothbard on, 310
McCloskey, Deirdre (formerly Donald), influence on Klein, 174
McFarland, Kenneth, influence on Wilcke, 376
Meat wholesaling, guild-like practices, 26
Medicare program, Ron Paul on, 263
Medicine, Ron Paul on changes in, 260
Mencken, H.L.
influence on Klein, 175
influence on Nolan, 238
Meng. See Chua, Soo Meng Jude
Metcalf, John, influence on Holcombe, 156
Microsoft antitrust debate, Armentano publications about, 13
Mill, John Stuart
Chua on, 228
influence on Narveson, 235
Miller, Fred, influence on Roderick Long, 199
Mises Institute
influence on North, 246
Ostrowski on, 250
Zanella and, 398
Mises, Ludwig von
Bettina Bien Greaves experience with, 133
Hospers on, 163
influence on Baxendale, 30
influence on Bennett, 34
influence on Bergland, 45
influence on Bouillon, 72
influence on De Coster, 100
influence on Formaini, 122
influence on Galambos, 202
influence on Halliday, 139
influence on Holcombe, 155
influence on Liggio, 186
influence on Reisman, 277–79, 285
influence on Tullock, 360, 362
North on Ricardian law of association, 241
Mises Made Easier (Greaves), 29
The Missiles of October, 99
Modugno, Roberta Adelaide, 229–31
Monopoly, Edelstein on, 112
Montana, Benson’s early years in, 37
Moore, G.E., influence on Edelstein, 110
Morality and Utility (Narveson), 236
Morgenbesser, Sydney, influence on Edelstein, 110
Mozart was a Red, 268
Multinational corporations, Ahiakpor’s research about, 3
Myrdal, Gunnar, Ahiakpor’s views on, 4
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Caplan), 80
The Myths of Antitrust: Economic Theory and Legal Cases (Armentano), 8
N
Nagel, Ernest, influence on Edelstein, 110
Napolitano, Andrew P., 231–35
Narveson, Jan, 235–37
Nathaniel Branden Institute (NBI) lectures
Bergland’s attendance at, 46
Machan’s attendance at, 218
Mack’s attendance at, 223
Wortham and, 380
National Review
influence on Lawson, 182
Rockwell on, 288
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), government and, 24
Natural law
Chua’s research on, 226
Samaron Clan, 212
Natural rights
Mack’s study of, 223
Ron Paul on, 265
The Nature and Significance of Economic Science (Robbins), 31
Nef, John, Hamowy’s encounter with, 146
The New Guard, 90
New Left, Rockwell on, 288
New York, Edelstein growing up in, 107
News International Corporation, unionism and reform, 25
Newspaper industry, Today reforms, 25
Ngor, Haing S., Reed (Lawrence) on, 273
The Night of January 16th (Rand), 216
Nisbet, Robert, influence on Liggio, 194
Nixon, Richard Milhous, Rockwell on, 289
Nkrumah, Kwame, Ahiakpor’s studies of, 3
Nolan, David F.
autobiography, 237–39
Libertarian Party, 47
North, Gary, 239–47
Nozick, Robert, influence on Narveson, 236
Nuisance, law of, 113
O
Objectivism
Caplan’s deconversion, 75
Kinsella’s attendance at conference about, 167
Machan and, 219
Reisman’s involvement in, 282
The Objectivist Newsletter, 45
On Royal and Papal Power (John of Paris), 227
Ordeal by Planning (Jewkes), 19
Orwell, George, influence on Hasnas, 152
Ostrowski, James, 247–50
Overton, Joe, Reed (Lawrence) and, 272
Oxford University, Edelstein’s education in, 110
P
Palacek, Karen, influence on Armentano, 13
The Paradox of Liberty (Yates), 392
Paris, John of, influence on Chua, 227
Pasour, E.C., Jr., 251–57
Patriot Act, Ron Paul on, 262
Patriotism
Ron Paul on, 262
Sobran on, 340
Paul, Ron
autobiography, 258–67
Blumert on, 57
North’s association with, 245
Rockwell’s involvement with, 292
Peace Corps, Rand on, 380
Pearson, George, Wilcke’s friendship with, 377
Peden, Joseph R., influence on Liggio, 187
Pelusi, Nando, 267
People’s Republic of China, Salerno on, 307
PERC (Political Economy Research Center), Pasour’s involvement with, 255
Persian Gulf war, Ron Paul on, 262
Peters, John, influence on Halliday, 138
Philosophy, Hasnas on the dangers of, 153
Plainfield, race riots: Salerno on, 312
Platonic notions, Schall on, 319
Police, response to a political rally, 309
Police power and individual liberty, Napolitano on, 231–33
Polish freedom underground, Reed (Lawrence) on, 272
Political boom and bust cycle, Thatcher years in Britain, 27
The Political Economy of Federal Government Growth (Bennett), 35
Political Economy Research Center (PERC), Pasour’s involvement with, 255
The Politics of Bureaucracy (Tullock), 34
Popper, Karl
influence on Shearmur, 334, 335
influence on Tullock, 361
Positive rights, Edelstein on, 116
Posner, Richard A., influence on Edelstein, 113
Post office, Armentano’s views on, 7
Poverty, Schall on, 318
The Price of Blood (Culyer, Cooper), 20
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Ricardo), 277
Private Practice, 292
Private property, Chua on Locken theory of, 227
Probability theory, Austrian’s resistance to, 77
Property rights
Mack’s work on, 225
Reisman on, 276
Protestants, and Catholics in Northern Ireland, 18
Prychitko, David, Boettke’s friendship with, 63
Public Policies Towards Business (Wilcox), 7
Q
Quakerism
Baxendale’s experience with, 24
Shearmur’s experience with, 334
Quayle, Dan, North’s contact with, 246
Quebec, Quiet Revolution, 118
R
Racism
Baird’s experience with, 15
Wortham on, 379
Radical Libertarianism: A Right Wing Alternative (Tuccille), 312
Radnitzky, Gerard, influence on Bouillon, 70, 72
Raico, Ralph
Bouillon on, 72
influence on Liggio, 187
Rand, Ayn
Block’s meeting with, 52
Caplan on, 76
discussion on, 69
influence on Barry, 21
influence on Bergland, 45
influence on Chafuen, 85
influence on Cowen (Tyler), 92
influence on Cox, 91
influence on De Coster, 99
influence on Formaini, 122
influence on Halliday, 138
influence on Hospers, 161–63, 164
influence on Kinsella, 167
influence on Klassen, 170
influence on Long (Roderick), 197
influence on Mack, 222
influence on Nolan, 238
influence on Reisman, 280, 282
influence on Ruwart, 305
influence on Salerno, 307, 309
influence on Schoolland, 324
influence on Sciabarra, 327
influence on Sechrest, 331, 332
influence on Tabarrok, 349
influence on Walters, 373
influence on Wortham, 380, 382–85
influence on Yates, 387
Liggio’s encounter with, 190
Machan’s encounter with, 217
Vidal on, 217
Randians
Blumert on, 57
Bostaph’s relationship with, 67
Randolph Club, 300
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), influence on DiLorenzo, 104
Read, Leonard
influence on Reed (Lawrence), 269, 270
influence on Ron Paul, 259
influence on Wilcke, 376
Reagan, Ronald
Barry’s views on, 22
influence on De Coster, 99
Sobran on, 341
Reed, Lawrence W.
autobiography, 269–75
influence on Pasour, 254
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke), 330
Reformed Church of America, Hospers on, 159
Reid, Thomas, influence on Caplan, 76
Reisman, George
autobiography, 275–85
Hamowy’s association with, 141
Religion. See also Catholics; Christianity
Sechrest on, 330
van Dun on, 366
Remmant Review, 244
Republic of Ghana. See Ghana
The Republic (Plato), 320
Review of Austrian Economics, 297
Ricardian law of association, North on, 241
Ricardo, David
Reisman on, 277
Ricketts, Martin, Barry’s experiences with, 23
Riegel, E.C., influence on MacCallum, 210
Riggenbach, Jeff, 286
Rights theory, Mack’s work on, 225
The Road to Serfdom (Hayek), 19, 28, 238
Roark, Howard, influence on Machan, 217
Robbins, Lionel, on Mises, 30, 31
Rockwell, Llewellyn (Lew), Jr.
autobiography, 287–304
Bergland’s contact with, 50
influence on De Coster, 100
influence on McCarthy (Daniel), 214
Roman Catholicism. See Catholics
Romasco, Albert, Sciabarra and, 328
Roosevelt, Franklin D., entrance into World War II, 186
Rothbard, Murray
Benson’s relationship with, 41, 43
Bergland’s relationship with, 44, 47, 48
Block’s longing for an autobiography of, 51
Block’s relationship with, 53, 54
Blumert on, 56
Chua on, 226–29
friendship with Hamowy, 141–44
influence on Armentano, 9
influence on Boettke, 63
influence on Caplan, 74, 75, 77, 78
influence on Colburn, 86
influence on Comanescu, 86, 88
influence on Cox, 91
influence on De Coster, 100
influence on DiLorenzo, 103
influence on French, 124–27
influence on Halliday, 139, 140
influence on Kurrild-Klitgaard, 178, 179–81
influence on Liggio, 187
influence on Modugno, 230
influence on Nolan, 239
influence on Ostrowski, 249
influence on Salerno, 311, 314
influence on Sciabarra, 328
influence on Sechrest, 332
influence on Sobran, 343
influence on Tuccille, 358
influence on Zanella, 397
Liggio and, 190
Pelusi’s encounters with, 267
Tabarrok’s encounter with, 350
Roy, Wayne, influence on North, 241
Ruff, Howard, North working at Ruff’s newsletter, 246
Ruwart, Mary, 305
S
Saint Aquinas, Thomas
Chua on influence of, 226, 227
on the state, 345
Yates on, 394
Salerno, Joseph T., 306–31
Salow, Glen, influence on Boettke, 59
Samaron Clan, natural law, 212
Santa Ana Register, 46
Schall, James V., 315–23
Scherer, Frederick M., Armentano’s response to on antitrust, 11
Schoolland, Ken, 323–26
Schreck, Bill, Salerno on, 307
Schwartzman, Steven, Halliday’s friendship with, 138
Schwarz, Fred, influence on North, 240
Sciabarra, Chris Matthew, 327–29
Sciences Po. See Institut d’Etudes Politique
Scott, Mark, influence on De Coster, 100
Sechrest, Larry J., 329–33
Seers, Dudley, meeting with Ahiakpor, 4
Sennholz, Hans
influence on Boettke, 58
influence on Reed (Lawrence), 270
Sex, and liberty in the 1970s, 17
Shaffer, Butler, influence on Victor, 371
Sharing versus giving, 317
Shearmur, Jeremy, 333–39
Silver dollars, North’s investment in, 243
Smith, Adam
influence on Salerno, 308
Reisman on, 277
Smith, L. Neil, Hancock on, 148
Smithfield Meat Market, guild-like practices, 26
Sobran, Joseph, 340–46
Social security, economics of, 241
Socialism
Barry’s experience of in Britain, 17
Schall on, 318
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (Mises), 278
Socialist Mouvement, van Dun’s family background, 362
Société du Canal de Provence et d’Aménagement, Falque’s experience with, 118
Society of Graphical and Technical workers (SOGAT), 25
Sociobiology. See Evolutionary psychology
The Sound of Music, influence on Reed (Lawrence), 270
South Royalton Conference, Armentano’s participation in, 9
Southern California Law Review, 46
Soviet system, Ron Paul on, 262, 266
St. Augustine, on the state, 345
St. Paul, Sobran on, 345
Standard Oil of New Jersey, Armentano’s research on antitrust, 8
State income tax, effect on state economic growth rates, 11
State of Connecticut, Armentano’s research on antitrust, 8
Stern, Howard, running for Governor as a libertarian, 249
Stewart, Robert, 346–48
Stiefel, Werner, MacCallum’s involvement with, 211
Streeten, Paul, Ahiakpor’s views on, 4
Strong, Ann Louise, influence on Falque, 118, 119
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), 388
Sumner, William Graham, Armentano’s Ph.D thesis on, 7
Supreme Court, Edelstein and, 108
Swamp Fox, influence on Ruwart, 305
T
Tabarrok, Alexander, 348–51
Taft, Robert, Liggio and, 186
Tansill, Charles C., influence on Liggio, 188
Taylor, Richard, influence on Mack, 223
Texas A&M, economics department, 40
Thatcher, Margaret
1980s, 24
Barry’s views on, 22
Baxendale’s views on, 26
Stewart on, 348
Theory and History (Mises), 186
The Theory of Money and Credit (Mises), 30
Theroux, David, Benson’s contact with, 42
Thomists, Chua on influence of, 226, 227
Thornton, Mark, 351–55
Thoroughbred racing, example of capitalism in action, 315–17
Thought crimes, Ron Paul on, 267
Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure (Garrison), 30
Todaro, Michael, Ahiakpor’s views on, 4
Today, newspaper reform, 25
Transubstantiation, Chua on, 227
The Trial (Kafka), 206
Tuccille, Jerome
autobiography, 356–59
influence on Salerno, 312
Tullock, Gordon
autobiography, 360–62
influence on Bennett, 34
influence on Holcombe, 156
The Twilight of Authority (Nisbet), 194
U
UFOs, Armentano’s experience with debates about, 6
Unemployment and Monetary Policy (Hayek), 397
Uniformitarianism, Yates on, 388
Unionism
Edward Heath and, 24
influence on Baird, 14
newspapers in Britain, 25
United States of America, Barry’s experience in, 21
University of Montana, Benson’s experience in, 39
University of Washington, Gwartney’s economic studies at, 137
U.S. Tariff Commission, Schoolland’s experience in, 324
Utilitarianism, influence on Narveson, 235
V
Van Dun, Frank, 362–70
Vedder, Richard, influence on Lawson, 183
Victor, Marc J., 370–72
Vidal, Gore, on Rand, 217
Vienna, Bettina Bien Greaves’s experience in post World War II, 130
Vietnam war
Benson’s experience in, 38
Catholic church and, 308
influence on DiLorenzo, 102
influence on Ostrowski, 247
influence on Schoolland, 324
Wilcke on, 376
Violence, Ron Paul on, 259
The Virtue of Selfishness (Rand), 327, 373
Volker Fund. See William Volker Fund
Voting, Caplan on rationality of, 80
W
Walker, Richard, Tullock’s association with, 361
Wall Street Journal, Barry’s views on, 20
Wallace, George, influence on Salerno, 310
Walters, Peter, 372–74
War
Catholic church and the Vietnam war, 308
Cold War, 310
Rockwell on, 301
Sobran on, 344
War on drugs, Victor on, 371
Washington State University (WSU), Gwartney’s economics studies at, 136
The Wealth of Nations (Smith), 277, 308
Weick, Edward, Boettke’s friendship with, 64
Welch, Robert, and the John Birch Society, 288
Welfare system and social engineering, Ron Paul on, 266
Wilcke, Richard W., 374–78
Wilcox, Clair, Armentano’s views on textbook, 7
William Volker Fund
North on, 241
Wittman, Donald, influence on Caplan, 80
Woolf, Robert, Mack’s involvement with, 224
World War II
Bettina Bien Greaves’s experience in, 128–31
FDR entrance into, 186
Wortham, Anne, 378–86
Y
Yates, Steven, 386–96
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)
Lawrence Reed’s involvement with, 270
and Salerno, 311
Z
Zanella, Fernando, 396–98
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