Mike Reid

Articles

07/30/2012 Free Market Mike Reid

The Free Market 30, no. 7 (July 2012) At a United Nations meeting in the year 2000, the world’s governments agreed on the goal of enrolling every child on the planet in primary schooling by 2015...

Capitalism as Epic Rap Battle

11/23/2012 Mises Daily Mike Reid

Who would win in a rap battle, Adolf Hitler or Darth Vader? Maybe that question hasn’t exactly been gnawing at you, but in the cutthroat emerging market of Internet entertainment, writers, actors, and...

One Race to School Them All

09/07/2012 Mises Daily Mike Reid

The great antifascist scholar Ludwig von Mises warned that government schools are an inevitable source of ethnic conflict, because dominant nationalities can use them to indoctrinate children from...

Media

Seeing Like a State

03/21/2011 Mike Reid

Government planners developed a particular aesthetic obsession: they were frustrated by the untidy complexity of real human societies, writes Mike Reid. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the author.

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