Mises Daily

It was in Europe—and above all, America — that human beings first achieved per capita economic growth over a long period of time.

Civilization is an achievement of the 'bourgeois' spirit, not of the spirit of war and conquest.

When anything goes wrong, from a train wreck to a change in stock market prices, the craven crowds always clamor for just one more law.

There is nowhere Marx is fuzzier or shakier than in the concept of historical materialism, the key to the inevitable dialectic of history.

Thanks to plea bargains and endless lists of new laws, American prisons are filled with innocent people.

Our modern reliance on government to make law and establish order is not the historical norm.

Many young idealists moved to Stalin's Soviet Union expecting to find a paradise. They often ended up in labor camps or as victims in various purges.

"Consumerism" seems like a big problem until the market supplies an essential good or service we badly need.

Martin Van Buren favored peace, freedom, and decentralization. Thus, most historians are biased against him.

Social Security was a revolution that shifted the responsibility for income maintenance from the private to the public sector.