Hayek and Friedman: Head to Head
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2014.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2014.
“Progressives” throughout history repeatedly show a fondness for social engineering and state control.
Keynesians are fond of overstating both the magnitude of the trade deficit and its alleged negative effects.
War is the health of the state, and thanks to a population enamored of military institutions, states are able to tax and spend with ease.
In his short book The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Ludwig von Mises explains why Piketty's new anti-capitalist tome is popular among a certain class of people.
Many Christians call for legislation to regulate, control, and ban activities that they deem as social vices.
It is a great irony that visions of socialist harmony necessarily result in rancorous and destructive struggles among groups with contradictory visions of the good society. It is perhaps equally ironic that profit-driven competition in markets results in the highest attainable degree of social harmony. Yet, this is how the world really works.
In his new book, Capital In the Twenty-First Century, Piketty fails to understand how savings and investment work, writes George Reisman This audio