Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Classical liberalism was a very popular subject during the time of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The source shows the mansion he was able to afford due to the fortune he gained in the shipping and railroad industries. The caption explains the house being worth around $160 billion in today’s dollars. There is no doubt that Vanderbilt reaped the benefits of classical liberalism in his time. Vanderbilt would likely argue that he deserved everything, because unlike the way the feudal system was set up, he worked

The issue I intend to research is a critical evaluation of capitalism and free markets versus socialism and Keynesian economics. In the twentieth century every human civilization was shaken not just by the aftermath of a worldwide war, but by a political rift without equal. This last concerns the best possible part and elements of government — a subject of critical significance the welfare of all humankind. No other worldwide issue has ever created so profound and troublesome rupture in popular

Let me start by trying to explain to you all how thankful I am. To all of my supporters, there is no way we could be here without the contributions of your valuable time. Time spent canvassing, making phone calls, donating, getting out the vote. At 27$, our campaign has run on the lowest average contribution of any presidential campaign in history. And by no sense of the word has this campaign been easy, for any of us, including Mr. Trump. His strong will and perseverance through the critiques of

be attributed to Ludwig von Mises’ oeuvre concerning money prices and economic quantities. Due to

The Road to Serfdom Valid Today as it Was in 1944 The following paper will explore the book, The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek. I challenge that many of Hayek's assumptions are still valid today even though his book was written in 1944. Hayek's assumptions regarding 1) the government's rule of the law, 2) the concept of government-directed economic activity that includes artificial separation of economics and politics, and 3) the notion that the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely

John Keynes and Friedrich Hayek where two of the most influential economic minds of the 20th century. Each of these men’s ideas had a great impact on the economy of numerous countries and helped countries find economic success different times. Keynes and Hayek had opposite ideas on what created a working economy that would be successful and avoid economical depressions like that of the United States great depression and the European depressions that resulted from the two World Wars. Keynes believes

Friedrich August von Hayek was born in Vienna, Austria in 1899 to a notable family. At the age of 19, Hayek started to attend the University of Vienna. While attending there, he received doctorates in law (1921) and political science (1923). During that time, Vienna was one of the top three universities for studying economics. Hayek went to college right after World War I, when Vienna was in poor conditions. Hayek hoped to better improve the social conditions in Vienna. During his time in Vienna

family consisting of seven children and their widowed father. As the film develops, Maria falls in love with the kids and their father, Captain Georg von Trapp. The Captain is a decorated, retired officer of Austria’s imperial navy who strongly opposes the Nazis. Maria and the Captain eventually get married and their family forms a singing group called the von Trapp family singers. Later in the film, after the Anschluss occurs, Georg is told that he must accept a commission in the German navy, causing

Normally, people who have been held hostage view their captors as evil and villainous, but on rare occasions captives may develop sympathies for their abductors. This condition is known as Stockholm syndrome, where victims begin to adopt the attitudes and beliefs of their attackers. Interpreted less literally, this syndrome can be readily applied to post-colonial societies, especially in the case of India in Roy’s God of Small Things, a society which the British Empire has held hostage. The Ipe

“There is a nice sound to the phrase ‘mountain warfare.’ It has a ring of daring; it sounds much cleaner than trench warfare and lighter than tank warfare. The only thing that can match it is war in the air, and that has become too deadly to be nice any more. It has also become too familiar, while war in the mountains is still strange enough to sound romantic. Except, of course, to the men who have to fight it.” -Walter Bernstein, Italy, January 1944 (1) With a thud, the Allied attempt to