Richard Rahn is one of the few writers out there who keeps up with the underground economy and its size and scope – which is a fantastic thing to do because this is a leading indicator of the status of freedom itself. The larger the state, the larger the underground. A free society has no underground since there is no reason for people who are
I had every intention of blogging my way through FreedomFest in Las Vegas this week, where the Mises Institute had a strong and conspicuous presence, but I ended up spending so much time running to sessions and visiting with folks at the book table that the blogging didn’t happen. Sometimes there’s so much to write that one hardly knows where to
The Economist reports that a man wearing a Mises.org bracelet confronted Rick Perry at a campaign stop. He asked how he considers himself a conservative given that “state debt has nearly tripled and spending has increased by two thirds” under his leadership. Perry dismissed this question entirely.
From Liberty : It is therefore with great pleasure that I hail the publication of a book of essays by Leland Yeager, a distinguished economist and longtime contributor to Liberty. Confronted by Yeager’s additions to learning, the rest of us should feel like small boys. Yet we have something to hail. Yeager calls his book Is the Market a Test of
The New York Observer’s Joel Conason on the grim scenario of a Misesian world: If the “Austrian” ideology prevailed in tearing down government, extirpating regulation and destroying public institutions, what would be left standing? Not much except giant corporations, mammoth banks and hedge funds, whose proprietors would then be able to completely
It appears that Scott Adams is a fan of Ludwig von Mises, who called socialism “Planned Chaos” – a term that might also be used to describe large corporations that attempt to centrally plan all things within a firm.
David Henderson, writing for the Cato Institute , says that Greenspan ran a “tight” monetary policy. So of course he can’t be blamed. Robert Murphy has already responded to this claim in a wonderful article . Some additional thoughts. First: Second: But Henderson says that these are not relevant data. We should instead look at year-on-year change.
The Free Market 26, no. 8 (September 2008) You are uptown in a shopping district of a small community, and you pass by the meat shop, the wine shop, the coffee shop, two churches side by side, a coin shop, an antique store . . . and hold it right there. A coin shop? This is irresistible, because, as implausible as this may sound, all political
The Free Market 27, no. 1 (January 2009) Today the highest-price good that people buy besides their houses is their car, and this reality leads people to believe that we can’t possibly let the American car industry die. We couldn’t possibly be a real country and a powerful nation without our beloved auto industry, which is so essential to our
The Free Market 27, no. 3 (March 2009) The works of Leonard E. Read, who founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, are now online at the Mises Institute. It is probably not the complete collected works, but it is all that he collected in book form. These are books that shaped several generations of activists, donors, writers,
What is the Mises Institute?
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.
