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What's the Right Thing to Do?
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 4:30am PDT
Libertarianism does not claim to encompass the whole of morality. Quite the contrary, it asks only, when is force or the threat of force permissible? The answer to this question delimits a sphere of rights, but not everything that ... -
The Relation of Cost to Value
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 1:54am PDT
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was Mises's great teacher. Here is a very early statement (1891) on the cost controversy, published in English. It demonstrates why Böhm-Bawerk remains a standard-bearer of the Austrian tradition. ... -
Reality Economics
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 1:54am PDT
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The Fed and the Ratchet Effect
Posted: September 5th, 2010, 11:17pm PDT
Once the monetary interventions start, they can't be stopped. The economy requires ever more of the same to fix the problems created by the first round. This is the ratchet effect that Robert Higgs applies to statist policies in ... -
Bad Monetary Policy Is Redundant
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:36am PDT
The Austrian theory of the trade cycle explains why the Fed's below-market interest rates invariably lead to a correction known as the bust. The theory is not new. Why has it been so out of favor with most economists? ... -
The Milgram Experiment
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
If the learner made an error, the teacher would administer an electric shock to the learner by remote control, pressing a button on a control console. Each electric shock administered would be stronger than the one before. ... -
If a Pure Market Economy Is So Good, Why Doesn't It Exist?
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
By eliminating the analytical straightjacket imposed by neoclassical economics, economists could have a lot more to offer about how to improve the world. They would start thinking about changing preferences, not just incentives. ... -
The 'Ground-Zero Mosque' and Grand Staircase Escalante
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
Regarding the media frenzy about the "Ground-Zero Mosque," Ryan Long asks: if the land surrounding the World Trade Center is so sacrosanct for some Americans, why haven't they purchased it themselves? ... -
Sir Thomas Smith: Mercantilist for Sound Money
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
Rothbard shows that Gresham's law was introduced not by Sir Thomas Gresham but by the "arrogant, boorish, and feisty" Sir Thomas Smith the Elder (1513–1577), a bitter critic of debasement who was exiled from the court in 1549. He ... -
Habemus Economistem: Some Economics of Papal Deaths and Successions
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:17pm PDT
What happens to the price of hotels in Rome when the Pope dies? The market experiences shock that, in macroeconomic terms, would seem to destabilize the system. Still, with careful planning, the market manages just fine. ... -
How the Stock Market and Economy Really Work
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
The stock market does not work the way most people think, writes Kel Kelly. One commonly held belief is that a stock-market boom is the reflection of a progressing economy. Not so: it mostly reflects money creation. ... -
The State's "Inception" Fails
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
Lew Rockwell explains that government-planned prosperity was only a dream. Massive unemployment and failing industries are the reality. Stimulus is just hitting the snooze button. ... -
The Critics of Marxism
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:16pm PDT
It seems now that almost everyone, from journalists to academics to clergy, relies unthinkingly on Marxian doctrines. Their deterministic ideas seem impervious to any argument. Of course, they've never read Ludwig von Mises. ... -
The Bankrupt Finnish Welfare State
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
Newsweek recently proclaimed Finland the "best country in the world." But Kaj Grüssner brings us first-hand experience with his homeland's onerous taxes, skyrocketing national debt, and byzantine healthcare system. ... -
Mo' Money, Mo' Problems
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
The US money supply can be increased at the whim of Federal Reserve officials, writes C.J. Maloney, with no compensation at all given to those whose current holdings will be debased by the newly created money. ... -
The Story of Stuff
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 11:17pm PDT
Sterling Terrell discusses a new video that condemns the existence of markets that produce. The narrator doesn't put it that way, but this is the upshot of a screed that fails to understand the benefits of either trade or production. ... -
The Best Work of Its Kind Since Rothbard's For a New Liberty
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
David Gordon sings the praises of this accurate, inspiring, detailed, and innovative look at the core of modern libertarianism. Huebert neglects nothing, from foreign policy to intellectual property. ... -
A Culture of Fear
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 11:17pm PDT
From the Great Depression to the War on Terror, the state has manipulated its subjects by telling tales of monsters in the dark. Jonathan Catalan turns on the lights and points to where the real danger lies. ... -
Venus Needs Some Austrians
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 11:17pm PDT
The socialist dreamers of the Venus Project imagine a future society of incredible abundance. Robert Murphy explains that our world could become as wealthy as they say, but only through the defense of private property. ... -
What You're Not Supposed to Know about War
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 12:36am PDT
Thomas DiLorenzo's new, ten-week, online Mises Academy course on "The Political Economy of War" will pierce through the dense fog of relentless war propaganda. ... -
Rothbard's Memos Marked "Strictly Confidential"
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
Rothbard's vast published output does not exhaust his thinking and writing. To the contrary, a large number of important items have never been published. Many of these are reports he wrote for the William Volker Fund. ... -
The Problems of External Costs and External Economies
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
Carried through consistently, the right of property would entitle the proprietor to all the advantages that the good's employment may generate — and all the disadvantages resulting from its employment. ... -
Revisit Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 11:18pm PDT
Fahrenheit 451 is one of the most influential libertarian novels of the past century. But millions of its readers have not looked at Bradbury's remarkable little novel since they were in their teens. It's worth another look. ... -
English Absolutism and the Great Chain of Being
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 11:17pm PDT
English justifications of absolutism stressed time and again that the subjects must obey the king in any and all circumstances, whether or not the king or his actions were good or evil. ... -
The Law of Final Utility
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 11:17pm PDT
The idea of final utility is to the expert the "open sesame" by which he unlocks the most complicated phenomena of economic life and solves the hardest problems of the science. ...