Mises Daily Articles

Gary Becker passed away on May 4, 2014 at age 83. There will be many obituaries written about this Nobel Prize winning economist, focusing on his numerous and important contributions to the dismal science. Here, instead, I will tell a more personal story, my own private interactions with my first...

The greatest promotional offender is not the marketplace, but the arm twisting by government.

If Germany has competitive labor costs and can build a better widget, where is the problem?

What is needed is fiscal reform. Only drastically cutting government spending will bring back prosperity.