Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 - December 13, 2009), first American Nobel Prize laureate (1970) has died, at the age of 94.
I was lucky to meet him at the M.I.T on the glorious day of November 9, 1989, the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the [...]
An important article by Anne Applebaum, about those who use the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to write about unsolved problems and unfulfilled expectations:
"Back then, most of those who did make predictions saw a dark future. ... Some truly awful things did happen: In [...]
A lot of blogposts have been flying around the libertarian blogosphere about the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. Those looking for truly thoughtful commentary should read the article by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "De-Socialization in a United Germany" Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1991). Hoppe [...]
Growing up in the potential firing line between the US and the USSR, the members of the metal band the Scorpions had special reason to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here is a video of their classic ballad Winds of Change which is about this historical event.
Here is [...]
