Walter Williams on Good Intentions

07/22/2009 Mises Wire Art Carden

With the minimum wage set to increase tomorrow, these videos of Walter Williams are worth considering (HT: Don Boudreaux).

Public Schools:

Minimum Wages and Occupational Licensing:

Welfare:

Cross-Posted at Division of Labour and the Beacon.

Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

What Is The Mises Wire?

Mises Wire offers contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.

Submitting articles to Mises Wire

Reprints, Permissions and Copyrights

The views expressed on Mises Wire and mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

Subscribe to the Mises Wire

Latest Articles

Why Trump Routed the D.C. Establishment, Again

11/07/2024 Mises Wire James Bovard

After the media complained nonstop for months about Donald Trump offering a dark message on the presidential campaign trail, a New York Times headline bewailed his election victory on Wednesday...

National Elections Expose the Sham that Is Centralized “Democracy”

11/07/2024 Mises Wire Ryan McMaken

The 2024 election is over, and in some states, big majorities voted for the winner Donald Trump. In Wyoming, Trump won 72 percent of the vote. In fact, more than 60 percent of the voting population...

The Limits to Public Opinion and the Failure of Democracy

11/07/2024 Mises Wire Finn Andreen

It is not often admitted, but it is nevertheless the case, that the people can be never successfully represented politically. However, public opinion influences politics, at times even strongly. In...

How the Government Created Exorbitant Insulin Prices

11/07/2024 Mises Wire Isaac Deak

The high price of insulin is increasingly present in American political discourse as presidential candidates boast of interventions; whereas, the Federal Trade Commission, states, and even counties...

Milei’s Political Caste

11/05/2024 Power & Market Oscar Grau

All government agencies intervene in people’s lives and liberty. The entire government bureaucracy exists precisely to do that. These agencies have an impact on social life and facilitate government...

Meet the Writer

Art Carden

Art Carden is assistant professor of economics, Brock School of Business, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.

What Should Austrian Economists Do? On Dolan on the Austrian Paradigm in Environmental Economics

08/21/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Art Carden

Volume 17, No. 2 (Summer 2014) My education in Austrian Economics began in earnest shortly before I started grad school at Washington University in Saint Louis. The Center for the Study of American...

Economic Calculation in the Environmentalist Commonwealth

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Art Carden

Volume 16, No. 1 (Spring 2013) ABSTRACT: Non-monetary calculation of the environmental effects of action runs into the same problems of in natura calculation and commonly owned means of production...

Subscribe to our Mailing Lists

What is the Mises Institute?

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

Become a Member