Whether its drug prices, crushing debt, or unemployment, government can always come up with someone else to blame. Fortunately though, in spite of the lackluster economy the Fed and the government seem committed to giving us, there's hope for a much better future.
Never published before, this short essay about Ludwig von Mises by his personal assistant, Bettina Bien Greaves, outlines what it was about Mises's creativity and scholarship that made him truly unique.
There's no shortage of intellectuals eager to churn out new schemes for central planning.
Wu has written an outline of international price theories that map the theoretical development of international economics. It is a major achievement.
John Mueller believes economics is fatally flawed because it cannot account for charitable love between persons.
I suggest that further research is needed before we can establish the conditions under which the value of personal gifts can adequately be calculated.
There's no Platonic laboratory where "pure" science happens independent of human ideas, motivations, and institutions.
Capitalists generally think in terms of future earnings, and future value of investments often helps determine the present value. Hillary Clinton, however, has decided to achieve her short-term election goal by hectoring capitalists for thinking too much about the short term.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2015.
