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How Fully Private, No-Insurance Hospitals Help the Common Man

Bureaucracy and RegulationFree MarketsHealth

04/21/2022Mises Media
The standard line with progressives is that unless government controls medical care, prices will skyrocket. But what if the free market model costs less than government-directed care?
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Heavy Sanctions against Russia Could Usher in a Wider Economic War

Global EconomyWar and Foreign Policy

04/19/2022Mises Media
The sanctions against Russia have the potential to spiral into something much larger. Indeed, many governments are using the current conflict as an opportunity to further push "green energy," rearmament, and other big-spending schemes.
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How the Business Cycle Happens

Booms and BustsU.S. EconomyU.S. HistoryBusiness Cycles

04/09/2022Mises Daily Articles
Study of business cycles must be based upon a satisfactory cycle theory, writes Murray Rothbard in America's Great Depression . Gazing at sheaves of statistics without "pre-judgment" is futile.
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How Values Lead to Action

Austrian Economics OverviewHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPraxeology

01/06/2022Mises Daily Articles
One must not forget that the scale of values or wants manifests itself only in the reality of action. These scales have no independent existence apart from the actual behavior of individuals.
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Hombre actuante

Austrian Economics OverviewHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPraxeology

12/16/2021Mises Daily Articles
El campo de nuestra ciencia es la acción humana, no los acontecimientos psicológicos que dan lugar a una acción. Es precisamente esto lo que distingue la teoría general de la acción humana, la praxeología, de la psicología.
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Hoover's Attack on Laissez-Faire

Booms and BustsU.S. HistoryInterventionism

12/06/2021Mises Daily Articles
In 1929, what remained of laissez-faire policy in America was brushed aside. Led by President Hoover, the government embarked on what has accurately been called the "Hoover New Deal."
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How Should Prices Be Determined?

Free MarketsPrices

11/09/2021Mises Daily Articles
The aim of the law should not be to constrict but to maximize price freedom and market freedom.
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Historia de la ciencia: el whigismo se vuelve salvaje

World HistoryCalculation and KnowledgePhilosophy and Methodology

10/18/2021Mises Daily Articles
Acton dice que la musa del historiador es Radamantis, el vengador de la sangre inocente: «El historiador debe ser un juez, y un juez de la horca, para corregir los errores de la historia».
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History of Science: Whiggism Gone Wild

World HistoryCalculation and KnowledgePhilosophy and Methodology

10/18/2021Mises Daily Articles
Acton says the muse of the historian is Rhadamanthus , the avenger of innocent blood: "The historian must be a judge, and a hanging judge at that, to right the wrongs of history."
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How Governments Killed the Gold Standard

Free MarketsU.S. HistoryGold StandardMonetary Theory

05/28/2021Mises Daily Articles
The gold standard disappeared because governments destroyed it. Here's how it happened. Private-sector money is always an enemy of the state.
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