Collectivism and interventionism emphasize the importance of national boundaries. Indeed, they make territorial expansion once more worthwhile because, within the wider area, there are more resources and a greater scope for planning, writes Michael A. Heilperin. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by...
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If the dictator invests more and thus curtails the means available for current consumption, the people must eat less and hold their tongues. No crisis emerges, because the subjects have no opportunity to utter their dissatisfaction, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is...
Seeing the rise of effective new competition, the older artisans and manufacturers turned to the state apparatus to try to shackle the efficient upstarts. But again and again, the market managed to get a leg up in its unending, zigzag struggle with power, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This...
Anyone who champions the well-being of society should especially celebrate commercial centers, stock markets, international trade, and every sector in which money changes hands in exchange for assets, goods, and services, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
The whole entrepreneurial class is in the position of a master builder whose task it is to erect a building out of a limited supply of building materials. Our master builder’s fault cannot be overinvestment, but only an inappropriate employment of the means at his disposal, writes Ludwig von Mises...
France’s absolutism and strictly enforced mercantilism put it out of the running as a leading nation in industrial or economic growth, despite that its early industrial development had seemed promising and that its population was six times that of England, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This...
The supporters of socialized healthcare dream that everything will remain the same, except that someone else will pay the bill. But man changes by degree as liberty is lost, writes Jim Fedako. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
The drop in interest rates makes unrealizable projects appear profitable and realizable. Entrepreneurs embark upon the execution of such projects. Business activities are stimulated. A boom begins, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
When the influx of silver and gold from the Spanish colonies in the New World dried up, little or nothing remained. But that was not all. Royal action also managed to destroy several flourishing sectors of the Spanish economy, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated...
The average range of tuition inflation is normally 8% annually, and prices have not fallen or stabilized once since 1977, regardless of economic climate. This symptom may be attributed to cheap and accessible money, writes B. T. Donleavy. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
There are thousands of people around the world wishing to live in the average American household, where bread is just a fraction of one’s income instead of the day’s main objective. What is it about the First World that allows its citizens such luxury, writes Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan. This audio...
Men are always forced to choose between satisfaction in nearer and remoter periods of the future. We cannot even think of a world in which originary interest would not exist as an element in every action, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
As the economic aspect of state absolutism, mercantilism was of necessity a system of state-building, of big government, of heavy royal expenditure, of high taxes, of (especially after the late 17th century) inflation and deficit finance, of war, imperialism, and the aggrandizing of the nation-state...
While Montaigne paved the way for the dominance of absolutist thought in France, surely the founder or at least the locus classicus of 16th-century French absolutism was Jean Bodin (1530–96), writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
We, this satirical and heretical dystopian futurist book, ends by resolving whether or not the protagonist can find penultimate happiness in the cocoon of the One State even as his lover faces execution. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the author.
It is a favorite conceit of modern, 20th-century liberals that skepticism, the attitude that nothing can really be known as the truth, is the best groundwork for individual liberty, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
In a few short hours, I was assaulted ten times with the demand that I display social consciousness. Can we all please cut the sham and go back to plain old buying and selling? Why blur the distinction between the commerce and charity? This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
The overall view of Botero is that the morality and justification for actions of the prince are diametrically opposed to the principles that must guide the ordinary citizen, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Machiavelli was reviled throughout Europe during the 16th century and on into the next two centuries. He was considered to be a conscious preacher of evil, a diabolic figure who had unleashed the demons in the world of politics, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is...
Even Marx did not contest the fact that private initiative and private ownership of the means of production were indispensable stages in the progress from primitive man’s penury to the more satisfactory conditions of the 19th century, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is...
