Political Theory

Mises wrote this essay in 1940 from Geneva, where he lived after Nazis forced him out of Austria and his apartment was ransacked by German troops.

Many people on the left regard economics as neither a science nor a principled field of study. For them, economics is just a pseudo-science invented as corporate propaganda, and people who push "free-market economics" do so because they are either evil or brainwashed by corporate masters.

Slobodian merits great credit for his detailed account of Mises and Hayek’s interest in world federalism, but he fails to grasp the fundamental issue motivating what they said.

Bob gives the context for his children’s book The Three Lads and the Lizard King, and covers a wide range of related issues.

The socialists recognized the many material benefits offered by capitalism. Their mistake was thinking that total equality could be achieved as well.

Join Jeff for the final Mises Weekends episode!

Paul Krugman seems to think those who like freedom and free markets are somehow responsible for the current mess brought on by crippling government debt and an enormous federal budget.

The only real solution to negative-attack politics is to reduce the power and scope of government over our lives.

The growth of statistics, often developed originally for its own sake, ends by multiplying the avenues of government intervention and planning.

The audiobook version of The Betrayal of the American Right.