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It’s Ludwig von Mises’s 143rd birthday! On the 100th anniversary of his birth (1981), George Reisman penned this tribute honoring Mises’s brilliance, courage, and...
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Murray Rothbard wrote that egalitarianism is a “revolt against nature.” Progressives claim that inequality harms society and is morally unacceptable, but in reality, it...
Mainstream economists today examine economic phenomena from a “black box” perspective in which they look at inputs and outputs without trying to understand causal...
Mainstream economists today examine economic phenomena from a “black box” perspective in which they look at inputs and outputs without trying to understand causal...
It’s Ludwig von Mises’s 143rd birthday! On the 100th anniversary of his birth (1981), George Reisman penned this tribute honoring Mises’s brilliance, courage, and...
When people speak of “old school economics,” they generally mean the application of economic thinking that involves what we might call “common sense.” That...
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While F.A. Hayek contributed much to the Austrian School of Economics, he also supported the establishment of the welfare state, believing that it was...
Thanks to increasingly broad car-seat laws, a third child often requires the purchase of a larger, more expensive vehicle. At the margins, this has...
The Ukraine war rages on and while the media and political classes repeat the “Putin started it” mantra, the evidence points elsewhere. The US...
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Many “mainstream” economists are bothered by the popularity of economically-flawed policy proposals like tariffs and price controls. It’s their own fault.