Entrepreneurship

Communities like Baltimore and Ferguson have been crippled by government regulations and the American nanny state.

Communities like Baltimore and Ferguson have been crippled by government regulations and the American nanny state. Now is the time to allow local residents to break free of government wage controls, government schooling, and government prohibitions.

In their new book The Next Generation of Austrian Economics, editors Per Bylund and David Howden bring together a thirteen young Austrian scholars into a new volume of scholarly commentary on money, banking, capital, risk, entrepreneurship, and more.

For those new to Austrian economics, there are few modern scholars whose work I would recommend more enthusiastically than Salerno’s.

“So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”  (Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower, 1967)

It's much easier to calculate the direct cost of a tax than the many indirect costs of a government regulation. Nevertheless, government regulations remain some of the biggest millstones around the neck of human progress and ingenuity.

Peter Klein discusses some new translations of his book, The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur.

There’s an interesting story in the news

Mises Daily Friday by Ryan McMaken: 

J.C. Chandor, writer and director of 2011's Wall Street drama Margin Call tackles economics once again with his new film A Most Violent Year. This time, Chandor explores barriers to entrepreneurship in a world dominated by corrupt government, labor unions, and organized crime.

J.C. Chandor, writer and director of 2011's Wall Street drama Margin Call tackles economics once again with his new film A Most Violent Year. This time, Chandor explores barriers to entrepreneurship in a world dominated by corrupt government, labor unions, and organized crime.