Eric Phillips

Latest work

03/05/2018 Mises Daily Eric Phillips

The Anti-Corn Law League became the best-financed and most highly organized pressure group in Britain. It appealed to middle-class manufacturers, industrial workers, agricultural laborers, and tenant farmers. It hosted lectures, debates, conferences, meetings, and petition drives. It published thousands of pamphlets, books, and newsletters. And it endorsed candidates for election to Parliament. Among those elected was Richard Cobden. But what effect did the league have? And were its actions motivated by ideals or interests?

Military Spending and Bastiat’s “Unseen”

02/29/2012 Mises Daily Eric Phillips

[An army of] a hundred thousand men, costing the taxpayers a hundred million of money, live and bring to the purveyors as much as a hundred million can supply. That is which is seen. But, a hundred...

Economic Law vs. Occupy Wall Street

11/15/2011 Mises Daily Eric Phillips

In their 1995 book, Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, David Card and Alan Krueger argued that increases in the minimum wage in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the early 1990s...

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.