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Rothbard: "At the outset of every step forward on the road to a more plentiful existence is saving….Without saving and capital accumulation there could not be any striving toward nonmaterial ends." Original Article: "The Upside of Lockdowns: More Saving​" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by...

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 5 of Cass Sunstein’s superb 2005 book, Laws of Fear: Human beings, cultures, nations often single out one or a few social risks as “salient,” and ignore the others. DBx: Yes. What Sunstein here describes is called by behavioral economists the...

Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, eds. University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 392 pages. English literature scholar Ed Ericson told a story about teaching Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago to American undergrads, who knew plenty about...