Interventionism

Presented at Mises University 2020.

Recorded at Mises University 2020.

Recorded at Mises University 2020.

Presented at Mises University 2020.

From rent to jobs, to marriage, government regulations are incessantly raising the cost of doing business. 

The Left has an enormous desire to "do good to" the mass of other people. But since many people often resist, the leftist inevitably ends by reaching for the big stick with which to push the ungrateful masses around.

If Mises stopped short of affirming the full right of individual secession, it was only because of what he regarded as technical obstacles.

The division of labor promotes peaceful exchange and continues peace. But this can all break down when governments intervene to prevent peaceful interaction and when government incompetence promotes violence.

The division of labor promotes peaceful exchange and continues peace. But this can all break down when governments intervene to prevent peaceful interaction and when government incompetence promotes violence.

Economists have long tried to use the idea of "public goods" as justification for a wide variety of government interventions. But there is no objective measure for what's a public good and what's not.