It is my personal opinion that MES ( previous edition , Scholar’s edition , or online ) should be read by everyone interested in learning about economics, and, by extension following Mises , this book should be read by everyone. It should also be at the top of your reading list. That is, read this book as soon in your education of economics as
The ideology that informs the thinking of present-day “civil rights” agitation is cluttered with misconceptions. It is not true, for example, that discrimination must lead to poverty. As Thomas Sowell observes, the Chinese have never enjoyed an equal playing field in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, or Vietnam, yet the Chinese
[From the Lou Church Memorial Lecture delivered at the Austrian Scholars Conference, 2004, Mises Institute] I delivered a paper at the Austrian Scholars Conference two years ago called “ Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Law: An Unresolved Tension .” I was gratified by the amount of discussion it provoked at the time and in the months that
Just about everything that people think they know about labor unions and wage rates is wrong. The standard tale that practically every student hears over the course of his education is that before the emergence of labor unions, American workers were terribly exploited and their wages were consistently falling. The improvement in labor’s condition
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