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Privatize the Highways — and All Roads for That Matter

Free MarketsInterventionism

08/03/2011Mises Daily Articles
Government-sponsored monopolies should be abolished where they seem to be most integral to our society.
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Putting the Country Back on Gold

Gold Standard

07/28/2011Mises Daily Articles
"Second-best" policy recommendations can never find perfection (by definition). But if we are going to have the government providing a monopoly of domestic currency, Ludwig von Mises's proposal for a return to a gold standard is theoretically elegant and eminently practical.
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Psychology of the Political Class

Free MarketsInterventionismPolitical Theory

07/14/2011Mises Daily Articles
It is simply impossible for one immersed in the political game to think normally. If we accept as normal the thought processes of those who make a living in the marketplace, then the tergiversations of the political mind must be considered abnormal or "crooked."
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Prohibition vs. Private Solutions at the Electric Daisy Carnival

Free MarketsInterventionism

07/11/2011Mises Daily Articles
The ability to find cities to host their events lies largely on the ability to minimize drug-related problems.
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Production Theory and the Market Process

EducationFree MarketsBusiness Cycles

07/07/2011Mises Daily Articles
I am pleased to announce that, starting July 20, I (and guest lecturer Peter Klein) will offer a Mises Academy class, <a href="http://academy.mises.org/courses/production/">Production and the Market Process</a>.
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PorcFest 2011

Free Markets

07/04/2011Mises Daily Articles
It was a blast, this libertarian-anarchist gathering in New Hampshire, and more evidence that this movement is growing.
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Paper Money Wears Prada

The FedGlobal EconomyMonetary Theory

06/28/2011Mises Daily Articles
The money inevitably flows to the latest speculative fashion, whatever it happens to be.
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Policing for Profit

The Police StateInterventionism

05/26/2011Mises Daily Articles
Government is a gang of thieves writ large. Let's look at the reality.
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Problemas con la teoría del valor coste

SubjectivismValue and Exchange

05/23/2011Mises Daily Articles
La teoría de los costos no pudo explicar lo que realmente forma los precios puntuales en un día determinado. Los austriacos tenían una teoría mejor. Este fue un avance inequívoco en la ciencia de la economía, análogo a la superioridad de la relatividad de Einstein sobre la mecánica de Newton.
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Problems with the Cost Theory of Value

SubjectivismValue and Exchange

05/23/2011Mises Daily Articles
The cost theory could not explain what actually forms spot prices on any given day. The Austrians had a better theory. This was an unambiguous advance in the science of economics, analogous to the superiority of Einsteinian relativity over Newtonian mechanics.
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