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One of the fundamental tenets of Austrian economics is the ordinal value scale. Augustine articulated the idea more than a thousand years before Carl Menger wrote his pathbreaking  Principles of Economics . Original Article: “Saint Augustine, Proto-Austrian” This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher

The roots of Austrian economics go back to the great theologian Thomas Aquinas, whose view of what constitutes a good was a prototype of Menger’s pathbreaking theory of the good. Original Article:   “Defining a Good: The Intersection of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Carl Menger” This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher

Connor Mortell joins Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop to discuss his recent article entitled ”We Are Not the Government, but America Is No Longer Anything More than the Government” and to consider what it means to be an American in the current era. As Americans become increasingly divided politically and culturally, and as those divides fuel a great

Featuring Tho Bishop, Liam Metzger, Connor Mortell, Mitchell Robson, and Annika Wahlstedt. Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.

Florida’s government promotes a “shared adversity” plan in which individuals and organizations have distant environmental problems imposed upon them. Original Article:   “Critiquing Florida’s Public Policy of “Shared Adversity”” This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

One place a price system manifests itself is the sports betting markets. The results are surprisingly accurate. Original Article:   “Sports Betting and Spontaneous Order” This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher

A debate between Mises Institute Summer Fellows Anthony Cesario and Connor Mortell. With Dr. Jonathan Newman as moderator. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29,

President Biden makes the false claim that wind- and solar-generated electricity are cheaper than power generated from coal and oil. Original Article: “Wind and Solar Are NOT Cheaper than Coal and

The usual answer is that secondhand smoke is bad. But if value is subjective, perhaps secondhand smoke also can be seen as a public good. Original Article: “Is Secondhand Smoke Bad, or Is It a Public Good? It’s

Leonard Read’s famous “I, Pencil” explained the workings of the market in terms of the creation of a simple pencil. However, we should not forget that the reviled fossil fuels are involved at every turn. Original Article: “ Not Even a Pencil Could Exist without Fossil