Adnan Al-Abbar

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08/06/2024 Mises Wire Adnan Al-Abbar

Recently, there has been a scandal in the luxury fashion industry concerning “unethical business practices,” and without going into the history or nature of these industries, somethings are...

The technocratic fallacy: we just need “the right people” in government

07/31/2024 Mises Wire Adnan Al-Abbar

An often-repeated saying among Arabs, widely believed to be the panacea to our political ills, goes like this: “The right person in the right position” by which we mean that if we insert the most...

What Can Carl Menger Teach Us about Falafel Sandwiches?

05/03/2024 Mises Wire Adnan Al-Abbar

Earlier this year, I gave a short course on Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics for scientists and engineers at my institute. The course was brief, and I focused only on ideas that were relevant for...

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What Can Carl Menger Teach Us about Falafel Sandwiches?

05/14/2024 Adnan Al-Abbar

What better way to explain the relationship between higher-order and lower-order goods than with food? Here, we look at the falafel sandwich.

Hayek on the Difference between Science and Scientism

01/02/2023 Adnan Al-Abbar

Modern progressive governance claims it has science on its side. Hayek's Nobel speech put holes in that viewpoint.

Nationality and Statelessness: The Kuwaiti Bidoon

11/18/2022 Adnan Al-Abbar

All too often, people equate their nationality with a particular state. Yet, as Mises noted, nationality does not depend at all upon a formal entity tied to a government.

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