Value and Exchange
Subjective Value and Market Prices
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.
What Is the Rate of Return on the Louisiana Purchase?
The true benefits of the Louisiana and Alaska Purchases are less clear than their value to pro-government propaganda.
How Smugglers Made America
Smuggling has often played a pivotal role in important events and episodes in American history, writes Mark Thornton.
Natural Disasters Don’t Increase Economic Growth
Although Frédéric Bastiat disproved it years ago, many still believe that natural disasters increase economic growth, writes Frank Hollenbeck.
Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2014
The purpose of the Rothbard Graduate Seminar is to provide an intense study of Misesian and Rothbardian economic analytics, along with the substantive conclusions of that research in related fields.
How Inflation Helps Keep the Rich Up and the Poor Down
Inflation puts a brake on social mobility: the rich stay rich (longer) and the poor stay poor (longer) than they would in a free society, writes Gu
Wage Earners and Employers
Ludwig von Mises was asked to respond to the question: "Are the interests of the American wage earners in conflict with those of their employers, or are the two in agreement?"