Posts tagged “welfare state”

Cartoon Hayek, in glasses and tweed, debates a stern, bald Mises across a game board. Hayek holds out an open palm, Mises raises one finger, and silver Monopoly tokens, houses, a hotel and dice stand between them.

Debates Within, Mises Versus Hayek

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 26, 2026

For fourteen years, from 1920 to 1934, Ludwig von Mises held a seminar in his office at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. He wasn’t a salaried professor. The University of Vienna let him lecture without pay, and his living came […]

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A frieze of four panels in ancient black-figure style: hunter-gatherer by a hut, agrarian hoeing by the house, industrialist workers walking to a clocked factory, informationalist working at home online.

How View of Work Shapes Law and Land

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 10, 2026

From 1803 until 1890, a French worker who wanted to change jobs had to carry a small booklet, the livret d'ouvrier. Each employer wrote in it the date the worker was hired and the date they left, and a worker […]

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