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Economics and Moral Courage

Booms and BustsBusiness Cycles

07/26/2012Mises Daily Articles
The Austrians in the late 1920s and early '30s were like scientists trying to address witch doctors.
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Even "Primitives" Pursue Profit

Free MarketsGlobal EconomyInterventionism

07/20/2012Mises Daily Articles
A closer look at one famous exotic gift exchange reinforces libertarians' claims about the universal power of the profit motive.
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Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism

Free MarketsInterventionism

07/20/2012Mises Daily Articles
While capitalism gives rise to prosperity and freedom, the state thrives on an economically ignorant public.
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Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

Booms and BustsBusiness CyclesHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

06/25/2012Mises Daily Articles
What the government should do about the bust that follows the boom is maintain a strict hands-off policy.
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End This Nonsense Now!

Business CyclesOther Schools of Thought

06/14/2012Mises Daily Articles
Paul Krugman defends the cartoon version of Keynesianism that we are told is oversimplified.
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Early Secular Communism

World HistoryOther Schools of Thought

06/14/2012Mises Daily Articles
During the havoc and upheaval of the French Revolution, the communist creed again popped up, but this time the major emphasis was a secular context.
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Early Christian Communism

World HistoryOther Schools of Thought

05/24/2012Mises Daily Articles
For centuries the alleged ideal of communism had come to the world as a messianic and millennial creed.
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Edgar the Exploiter

Edgar the Entrepreneur

The EntrepreneurMedia and Culture

04/16/2012Mises Daily Articles
To get the full picture of the virtues of the free market, we must bring the consumer into the picture.
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El propósito del gobierno en la colonia de Plymouth

Free MarketsU.S. HistoryInterventionism

04/05/2012Mises Daily Articles
El primer gobierno del Nuevo Mundo establecido por los propios peregrinos fue una medida de emergencia para mantener el control sobre los sirvientes y otros colonos.
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Economic Enlightenment from Ballvé

EducationFree Markets

04/04/2012Mises Daily Articles
If you are looking for something "in between" Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson and Mises's Human Action , Faustino Ballve's Essentials of Economics is for you.
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