You just have to love it: The contract talks between the Ohio Education Association and its professional staffers appear to have stalled. Could a strike be imminent? “What,” you say, “one union suing another. How could that be possible?” Picture this situation: A union which constantly complains about wages and working conditions being struck by
“Here’s an easy way to double your salary: Go to work for the U.S. government.” That’s right, government employees receive an average compensation twice that of the average private-sector employee. Don’t hold your breath for the commission to investigate this wage
The Brookings Institution Press has a new offering, Antitrust Policy and Vertical Restraints . The description of the book includes this sage advice, “ In order to formulate economically efficient policies, they (policymakers) must be able to identify and limit those practices that are likely to do more harm than good .” Why make this hard? The
WorldNetDaily.com is reporting that the House has passed a bill that appears to allow strip searches of public school students in order to “ ensure that classrooms, school buildings, school property and students remain free from the threat of all weapons, dangerous materials, or illegal narcotics .” I guess one shouldn’t be shocked that the
As has been reported on this blog, Israel Kirzner wrote a short article where he distinguishes between information-knowledge and action-knowledge. The distinction between the two is that action-knowledge refers to “knowledge that actually spurs and shapes action” while information-knowledge is simply facts and figures that exist in memory. The
A fun little absurdity — AOL has a teaser that purports to show how a celebrity salary feels to the working man or woman making $30K. According to the first slide, Angelina Jolie feels the cost of a $40 meal the same as $0.12 feels to the $15 per hour laborer. Absurd! Are they trying to tell me that after the waiter said, “I’m sorry, I just lost
In what has to be the most telling example of the desire of government to use violence as its primary means to any end, officials in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland and Ontario, Canada, have destroyed over 20 million ash trees in an attempt to slow the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer. The larvae of this voracious Asian pest — first identified in
Whenever economic activity stagnates or declines, they quickly lower their interest rates and expand their credits. But when business seems to improve, they hesitate and vacillate in removing the rate cuts. The consequence is a permanent addition to liquidity. According to calculations of the German central bank, between the end of 1997 and
Reichsführer Perry is mad with power . How else can you explain his executive order mandating that Texas girls ages 11 and 12 receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine before entering the sixth grade starting in September 2008? The principled Libertarian view is that Perry’s order is an aggression on the bodies of these young girls. But, of
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.