Private Property

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Phoenix.

Never published before, this short essay about Ludwig von Mises by his personal assistant, Bettina Bien Greaves, outlines what it was about Mises's creativity and scholarship that made him truly unique.

Some states are attempting to take control of federal lands within their own borders. But even if the states succeed at this, fewer federal expenditures on federal lands won’t translate into lower taxes for anybody.

Although federal courts have struck down their efforts, states and local governments have attempted to limit taxpayer subsidization of migrant populations. This central planning of immigration by the Feds has served only to increase conflict while swelling the size of government.

Congress and the First Lady teamed up to impose the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act on school children across the country, but news of unintended consequences abound.

Tom Woods’s book The Church and the Market revolutionized the economics debate among Catholics, and it explained how religion cannot replace economic science any more than it can replace physics. Understanding reality, and how to seek religious ends within it, depends on good science.

Business schools now often tell students that shareholders are socially irresponsible by seeking only profit and ignoring the “stakeholders in the community.” But in practice, owners must be respectful of many outside groups (such as employees and vendors), to be profitable.

FedEx and UPS recently announced they will not deliver some goods that can be used to make guns. These companies should be free to do this, just as all owners should be free to decide with whom they will do business.

The pro-tax crowd continues to tell us that the rich aren't paying their "fair share" and that the system taxes the poor more than the rich. The opposite is true, although this doesn’t justify more taxes for either the rich or the poor.

When it comes to romantic relationships, people ruthlessly discriminate and make an endless number of subjective judgments.