You've heard that government policies can cause unanticipated bad effects? This view is confirmed many times over when you consider the current forest-fire fiasco. Government is the cause of the fires that raged out of control across the West this summer, just as surely as if the Forest Service had spread the fuel and lit the match.
What the Gore's central plans would do to whole sectors of the economy, as explained by Thomas DiLorenzo.
Frank Knight complicates things in interesting ways. He first argues for a free economy in a way that Austrians can only applaud.
In the 1940s, Mises wrote on the trends that brought Europe to the abyss of war and destruction. These essays remained unpublished--until now.
The foes of trade are missing an important effect of the rising volume of world commerce, says Hans Sennholz: the improvement of living conditions in all countries.
They have linked arms throughout American history, with results that corrupt both politics and the free-enterprise system.
Strange how closely the outlines of Gore's plan track Carter's during the 1970s energy crisis, eschewing market prices for central dictate.
Mancur Olson's new book resolves for me a major mystery. As all readers of The Mises Review know, socialism is an unworkable system. Mises conclusively demonstrated that a centrally planned economy cannot calculate rationally;
Regulations increase the price of gasoline, housing, software, and much more, says Thomas DiLorenzo.
It is time to refute claims of gas gouging and explain (once again) that not only were these price increases inevitable, but they have been specially packaged in Washington, D.C.
