Interventionism

Government intervention kills another small business

Entrepreneurship still isn’t very popular in economics, but Austrian ideas are increasingly influential in contemporary management research, where the future is bright for young Austrians.

"Good news, everyone!" Mark Thornton discusses the positive results of marijuana legalization in Colorado.

Last year, British entrepreneur Mike Watts made headlines when he opened England’s first private toll road in more than a hundred years. The road has now been closed, but its brief history provides a sad (and all-too-typical) example of how government sabotages entrepreneurs and hurts their customers.

One of Ludwig von Mises's most important works is now available as a free Mises Institute audio book.

Our friend Robert Bradley recently took a look back 25 years ago when the New York Times still had some scientific backbone.

The supply side matters. Fernández-Villaverde and Ohanian point out, “In short, incentives to hire, invest and start new businesses need to be a priority, lest the sclerotic U.S. economic growth of the past six years returns and, as in Europe, becomes a permanent condition.”

Mises Daily Thursday by Dale Steinreich.

The Economic Crash that Cured Itself: A Conversation with James Grant about the Depression of 1921.

Shocking health care expenditure: US vs. the rest of world.