Ron Manners’ ideas 
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The Global Financial Crisis

Harvard University, currently in the news because of their (now former) ultra-woke president, played a role in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008....

Joining the ‘world of ideas’ can lead to unlimited opportunities

Ron’s welcoming comments, on 23/11/23, to the successful Mannkal Scholars for 2024. I have been allocated, just three minutes, to welcome you as...

What is Politics?

A Russian Jew was finally allowed to emigrate to Israel. At the Moscow airport, customs found a Lenin statue in his baggage and...

A birthday poem

For me, measuring things is more than a hobby. I feel we can only manage that which we measure. Is it worth the...

History helps us prepare for the future

In my role as Mannkal Economic Education Foundation Chairman, students often ask: “What has been the biggest change to Australia over the past...

Mannkal Musings Mannwest

Anarcho-capitalism vs limited government

This debate at the Spring 1971 Libertarianism Conference at Columbia University arose out of Child’s ‘Open Letter to Ayn Rand’, in which he...