Other Schools of Thought

Instead of solving the initial problem, the intervention creates two or three further problems, which the government feels it must intervene to heal.

Every evil of the day, even those directly caused by the government, are blamed on the market economy.

[Day 10 of Robert Wenzel's 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this Mises Daily originally ran January 1, 2008.]

The book American Empire is a debate between two "realist" authors on the practical virtues of empire.

In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare, writes Yuri N. Maltsev.

Fascism cartelizes the private sector and denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals.

Those living off the state believe the good times will never end. Trillion-dollar deficits beg to differ.

Paul Krugman defends the cartoon version of Keynesianism that we are told is oversimplified.

During the havoc and upheaval of the French Revolution, the communist creed again popped up, but this time the major emphasis was a secular context.

Schumpeter said that the USSR "would be a good laboratory." Weber responded, "A laboratory heaped with human corpses!"