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Soma

2011-06-16T15:59:41Z

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''This article uses content from the BookRags.com article, [http://www.bookrags.com/notes/bnw/OBJ.html "Brave New World Notes."'']

In Aldous Huxley's famous dystopian novel, [[Brave New World]], soma is the drug that people take in half-gramme tablets to get away from it all.<ref>See Patrick Barron's article, [http://mises.org/daily/5381/The-Brave-New-World-of-Monetary-Policy The Brave New World of Monetary Policy]</ref> It produces a joyful effect in which all bad things are simply whisked away, and it is on hand at all times. For most of their lives, the citizens of the Brave New World are doped up on Soma. John, or the Savage, is the only person in the book who has never taken soma.

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Ayn Rand

2011-06-02T22:51:56Z

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'''Ayn Rand''' (1905–1982)<ref name="Chris Matthew Sciabarra">Sciabarra p 1</ref> born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum was a [[Russia|Russian]]-[[United States|American]] novelist and philosopher. She is most famous for her novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' (1943) and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' (1957). Other literature attributed to her is ''We the Living'' (1936), ''Night of January 16th'' (1934), and ''Anthem'' (1938). Her non-fiction titles include ''For the New Intellectual'' (1961), ''The Virtue of Selfishness'' (1964), ''Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal'' (1966), ''The Romantic Manifesto'' (1969), ''The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution'' (1971), ''Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology'' (1979), and ''Philosophy: Who Needs It?'' (1982). She was a [[laissez-faire]] [[capitalist]], but refused to call herself a [[libertarianism|libertarian]] on the grounds that she didn't want to associate herself with [[Anarchism|anarchists]].

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*Chris Matthew Sciabarra. ''Ayn Rand: the Russian radical.'' Pennsylvania State University Press. 30 September 1995. ISBN 978-0271014418
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Study Guide to Theory of Money and Credit

2011-06-01T14:07:55Z

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Robert Murphy's ''Study Guide to [http://mises.org/resources/194/Theory-of-Money-and-Credit "The Theory of Money and Credit"''] is forthcoming from the Mises Institute.

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Study Guide to Theory of Money and Credit

2011-05-31T13:33:07Z

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Robert Murphy's ''Study Guide to "Theory of Money and Credit"'' is forthcoming from the Mises Institute.

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Constructivism

2011-05-21T14:49:06Z

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"Constructivism" is [[F.A. Hayek]]'s term for the idea that all institutions in society were or should be "deliberately constructed by somebody." According to Hayek, "constructivists … habitually argue on the assumption of omniscience," rather than acknowledging, as Hayek does, the necessarily limited character of human knowledge in society.<ref>Hayek, F.A. ''Law, Legislation, and Liberty'' p. 10, 13.</ref>

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Constructivism

2011-05-21T14:44:23Z

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"Constructivism" is [[F.A. Hayek]]'s term for the idea that all institutions in society were or could be "deliberately constructed by somebody." According to Hayek, "constructivists … habitually argue on the assumption of omniscience," rather than acknowledging, as Hayek does, the necessarily limited character of human knowledge in society.<ref>Hayek, F.A. ''Law, Legislation, and Liberty'' p. 10, 13.</ref>

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Fritz Machlup

2011-02-07T16:26:16Z

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Fritz Machlup (1902–1983) was an Austrian economist. [[Mark Thornton]] describes his life,

"Fritz Machlup … was born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, the son of Berthold Machlup owner of a cardboard-manufacturing business. He entered the University of Vienna in 1920 where he studied under Friedrich von Wieser and [[Ludwig von Mises]] (and became his professional advocate in later years). His dissertation on the gold-exchange standard was completed under von Mises in 1923 and published in 1925 as Die Goldkernwahrung. He married Marianne (Mitzi) Herzog in 1925 and they had a son and daughter.

Machlup became a partner in an Austrian cardboard-manufacturing firm in 1922 and helped form a paperboard corporation in Hungary in 1923. In 1927 he became a member of the Austrian cardboard cartel. Machlup also served as the treasurer and later secretary of the Austrian Economic Society and participated in the famous seminar of von Mises and the interdisciplinary seminar, the Geistkreis."<ref>Thornton, Mark. "[http://mises.org/about/3237 Biography of Fritz Machlup]." Mises.org</ref>

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John Locke

2011-02-07T15:30:42Z

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John Locke (1632–1704) was an political philosopher who became prominent after the English civil war.

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The Great Explosion

2011-02-04T17:46:42Z

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The Great Explosion is a science-fiction novel first published in 1962. It received the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Award Prometheus Award] for libertarian science fiction in 1985.

It is currently out of print and little known.

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The Great Explosion

2011-02-04T16:53:33Z

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Calvin Coolidge

2011-01-26T13:45:35Z

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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929).

According to Bob Murphy, "As far as fiscal responsibility, Coolidge was superlative.

"In contrast to the onerous burden created under Woodrow Wilson, during the Coolidge years the bottom bracket's tax rate was brought down to 1.5 percent by 1926, while an upper-middle-class (though hardly "filthy rich") household earning $20,000 saw its tax rate slashed to 9 percent.

"He ran budget surpluses every year he was in office."<ref>Murphy, Robert P. [http://mises.org/daily/4882 Interwar Presidents and the Fantasies of Historians]</ref>

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Calvin Coolidge

2011-01-26T13:44:16Z

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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929).

According to Bob Murphy, "As far as fiscal responsibility, Coolidge was superlative.

"In contrast to the onerous burden created under Woodrow Wilson, during the Coolidge years the bottom bracket's tax rate was brought down to 1.5 percent by 1926, while an upper-middle-class (though hardly "filthy rich") household earning $20,000 saw its tax rate slashed to 9 percent.
"He ran budget surpluses every year he was in office."<ref>Murphy, Robert P. [http://mises.org/daily/4882 Interwar Presidents and the Fantasies of Historians]</ref>

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Thymology

2011-01-19T16:16:18Z

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Thymology is one of the two sciences "invented, or at least renamed" by [[Ludwig von Mises]], the other being praxeology.<ref>Sunwall, Mark R. [http://mises.org/journals/scholar/Sunwall2.pdf Towards a Thymology of Tyranny]</ref>

In the Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, Mises wrote,

"Thymology is a branch of history or, as Collingwood formulated it, it belongs in 'the sphere of history.' It deals with the mental activities of men that determine their actions. It deals with the mental processes that result in a definite kind of behavior, with the reactions of the mind to the conditions of the individual's environment. It deals with something invisible and intangible that cannot be perceived by the methods of the natural sciences. But the natural sciences must admit that this factor must be considered as real also from their point of view, as it is a link in a chain of events that result in changes in the sphere the description of which they consider as the specific field of their studies."<ref>von Mises, Ludwig [http://mises.org/resources/120 The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science]</ref>

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Roy A. Childs Jr.

2011-01-19T16:05:30Z

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Roy A. Childs Jr. (1949–1992) was a libertarian essayist and critic who counted among his early influences Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Rose Wilder Lane, and Robert LeFevre. In the 1960s, Childs became friends with Murray Rothbard, and Childs's controversial paper, "The Invisible Hand Strikes Back," was published in the inaugural issue of the [http://mises.org/periodical.aspx?Id=3 Journal of Libertarian Studies]. In 1977 he became a research associate of the Center for Libertarian Studies.

See his [http://mises.org/daily/author/395 Mises Daily archives].

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Roy A. Childs Jr.

2011-01-19T16:04:42Z

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