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Many people have sent us this article from the NYT, one that recounts how a small but exceedingly brave group of heterodox economists have dared question the free-market orthodoxy of the profession. It’s the same version of this article that appears every few years, and the story is as tedious as it is strangely false at its root: 1) there is no

Randy Barnett lectures us that libertarians can and should be all for war — but for the life of him, he just can’t seem to figure out why this particular centrally planned war on Iraq hasn’t gone well. Really, it’s just a mystery, all these unintended consequences, these unexpected results, the expense, the bizarre and inexplicable failure of the

ZDnet says that the Mises Institute is the “flag carrier for official libertarianism.” Of course if you own the flag, you can burn it.

About the Bastiat Collection :

James Grant writes in the New York Times today , on cue as the housing sector bust continues. He seems to be the guy that the editors call whenever there is a downturn in the market. And every time he writes a variation on the Austrian theme that it all comes down to credit cycles generated by the central bank, which is forever attempting to gin

Last night, a lady from my neighborhood just delivered her last pint of chicken salad to my door. Her chicken salad—made by “The Chicken Salad Chick”—has been all the rage, with everyone in the neighborhood forking over for this stuff. It’s a classic case of a suburban food hysteria. But she is shutting down, not because of her failures but her

Or better yet, what do the fashion and dining industries have in common? Neither has traditionally been protected via IP laws. Yet while conventional wisdom suggests that IP regimes are a necessary condition for both invention and innovation, the fashion and dining industries thrive and expand each year. At least, that is until the political class

In the Christian Science Monitor, here is George Selgin: The subprime lending crisis also shows that, while central banks certainly have the power to expand a nation’s spending power, they can’t guarantee that the extra power gets used as intended, namely, to give a roughly uniform boost to the overall demand for goods. On the contrary: The crisis

Tony Snow says $170,000 a year just doesn’t cut it.

I’m pleased to announce that two scholars will be live blogging the new bio of Mises: Wladimir Kraus, a PhD student in economics in Germany, and Greg Ransom of the Hayek Center. Both will be reading the book chapter by chapter and blogging their impression here as they go. Both bloggers are interesting cases because neither can be considered