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Keynesians Can't Predict

The FedFree MarketsBusiness CyclesOther Schools of Thought

07/28/2009Mises Daily Articles
Insufficiently educated in the history of economic thought, they do not realize that Keynesianism down to the most technical details, like the concept of the foreign exchange multiplier is mercantilism or, more precisely, John Lawism pure and simple.
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Krugman's Rearguard Apologists

Booms and BustsThe FedOther Schools of Thought

07/07/2009Mises Daily Articles
As it turns out, Krugman's apologists shouldn't demand more context for his notorious quotes, since it only shines even more light on how confused and backward he is as an economist.
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Krugman's Intellectual Waterloo

Booms and BustsThe FedInterventionismMonetary Theory

06/22/2009Mises Daily Articles
Krugman. 2002. Calling for a housing bubble.
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Killing in War

Media and CultureWar and Foreign PolicyInterventionismPhilosophy and Methodology

06/18/2009Mises Daily Articles
Unjust combatants who feared punishment at the end of the war might be more reluctant to surrender, preferring to continue to fight with a low probability of victory than to surrender with a high probability of being punished.
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Konkin sobre la estrategia libertaria

Big GovernmentFree MarketsStrategyPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

04/06/2009Mises Daily Articles
Konkin dificulta la Konkin dificulta la eficacia libertaria creando problemas morales donde no existen: acusando como no libertarios o no de mercado a un montón de instituciones necesarias para el triunfo de la libertad: organización, jerarquía, trabajo asalariado, donaciones de fondos de...
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Konkin on Libertarian Strategy

Big GovernmentFree MarketsStrategyPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

04/06/2009Mises Daily Articles
Konkin cripples libertarian effectiveness by creating moral problems where none exist: by indicting as nonlibertarian or nonmarket a whole slew of institutions necessary to the triumph of liberty: organization, hierarchy, wage work, granting of funds by libertarian millionaires, and a libertarian...
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Katrina and the Great Flood of 1927

Big GovernmentFree MarketsInterventionism

08/29/2007Mises Daily Articles
As every flood and government response since has made clear, government only wastes resources when it attempts to prevent floods while it continues to increase the danger and destructiveness of future floods.
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Knowledge, True and False

Free MarketsPhilosophy and MethodologyPrivate Property

05/09/2007Mises Daily Articles
There is no such thing as a right to privacy except the right to protect one's property from invasion.
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Katrina and Socialist Central Planning

Big GovernmentThe EnvironmentHealthMedia and CultureThe Police StateTaxes and Spending

10/10/2005Mises Daily Articles
Watching the Capitol Hill hearings on what went wrong after Hurricane Katrina provided a glimpse of what it must have been like in the Politburo in the 1950s, writes Lew Rockwell.
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Knickers in a Bind

Free MarketsGlobal EconomyInterventionism

09/27/2005Mises Daily Articles
The EU has taken aim at China's textile industry, writes Grant Nulle. This is harmful to all parties.
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