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Decade after decade, he fought militarism, protectionism, inflationism, every variety of socialism, and every policy of the interventionist state, writes Ralph Raico.

Antony Mueller explains that measuring the economy as a whole owes its popularity to the Cold War—that the origin of the GDP lies in the management of the war economies of the first half of the twentieth century.

The collectivistic and neomercantilistic writers of today seek prosperity along a road that necessarily takes us further and further away from peace.

The early American individualists of the nineteenth century were a diverse lot with fixed and unwavering love of true liberty.

In this short biographical entry on Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard recounts a great man's life and work and explains his significance to the world of ideas and the history of his time and ours.

The US trade deficit is an American problem. It is the result of insufficient savings at home and a widening budget deficit. 

Murray Rothbard, writing in 1971, blasted both the Nixon administration and the erstwhile "free-market" conservatives, basking in the seats of power, who betrayed whatever principles they may have had for the service of the state.

Ludwig von Mises was the great opponent of John Maynard Keynes. In this blistering article, appearing for the first time online, Mises unmasks Keynes as an advocate of the pseudoscience of monetary magic.

Murray Rothbard recounts how during the French and Indian War (1754–63), Americans continued the great tradi­tion of trading with the enemy, and even more readily than before.

In 1950, Ludwig von Mises warned against increasing the costs of labor via pension programs and Social Security. This article is online for the first time.