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Biebermania and Its Lessons for Our Time

Media and CultureEntrepreneurship

05/16/2011Mises Daily Articles
Even given his notable talent and hard work, Justin Bieber owes his fame and fortune to the organizing power of human action and choice.
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Boombustology

Booms and Busts

04/19/2011Mises Daily Articles
Mansharamani uses the work of Roger Garrison and other Austrians to great effect. <a href="http://store.mises.org/Boombustology-Spotting-Financial-Bubbles-Before-They-Burst-P10464.aspx">Buy this book in the Mises Store.</a>
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Blinder Understates the Cost of a Carbon Tax

The EnvironmentInterventionism

02/03/2011Mises Daily Articles
Alan Blinder listed numerous alleged benefits of a phased-in carbon tax. Out of his entire column, he devoted a single sentence to the possible downside of his plan when he wrote, "No one likes to pay higher taxes."
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Blame the Physiocrats for Objective-Value Theory

History of the Austrian School of EconomicsSubjectivism

01/27/2011Mises Daily Articles
It was the physiocrats who broke with centuries of sound economic reasoning and contributed to what would become, in the hands of Smith and Ricardo, a reactionary and obscurantist destruction of the correct analysis of value.
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Book Review: Free Banking

Free MarketsMoney and Banks

01/03/2011Mises Daily Articles
While Sechrest's book will be an asset for further research, his untimely death has not only cost many of us a dear friend but will also deprive the continuing debate of his sound scholarship, open mind, and willingness to actively engage in the search for truth.
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Burns Diary Exposes the Myth of Fed Independence

The FedU.S. History

12/27/2010Mises Daily Articles
Burns's diary is page after page of political dirty dealing, lying, and backstabbing. Nixon went so far as to plant negative press about Burns and threatened to expand the Fed's Board of Governors to dilute the chairman's influence.
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Black Pigs and Free Enterprise

The EntrepreneurFree MarketsLegal SystemEntrepreneurship

12/20/2010Mises Daily Articles
Legal or not, destruction is animal-like behavior. It's one thing when it is done by wild pigs. But when identical forms of destruction are sponsored by the state, we are talking about a form of brutality that is purely man-made.
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Boom, Bust, and Gold

Booms and BustsThe FedFree MarketsGold Standard

11/26/2010Mises Daily Articles
A pure gold standard is not conducive to business cycles. Contrary to mainstream economists, it is the attempts of the central banks to bring about price stability and full employment that set in motion the menace of boom-bust cycles.
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Block's Building Blocks

Free MarketsGlobal EconomyEntrepreneurshipPrivate Property

11/22/2010Mises Daily Articles
Murray Rothbard, in his life, was known as Mr. Libertarian. We can make a solid case that the title now belongs to Walter Block, a student of Rothbard's whose own vita is as thick as a phone book, as diverse as Wikipedia.
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Boom! Crack! Crash!

Booms and BustsThe FedFree MarketsInterventionism

11/16/2010Mises Daily Articles
Hazlitt not only has a clear and lucid writing style; of all economists who are gifted at writing for a popular audience, Hazlitt has by far the soundest grasp of his subject. Hence, he is able to put correct and even profound analysis into a highly readable style.
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