Mises Daily

It is of interest to inquire how and why the very obstacles to his material prosperity have come to be mistaken for the cause of man's prosperity.

The saying that things may work nicely in theory, but do not necessarily work in practice is well known, but there's good theory and bad theory.

No group of people has been subjected to more absurd state "protection" than India's Jarawa tribe.

Life is a series of choices by which we seek to exchange something we have for something we prefer.

Legal philosopher Jeremy Waldron disagrees with the classical-liberal line of thought on the rule of law.

Marx's devotion to communism was his crucial point, far more central than the dialectic, the class struggle, the theory of surplus value, and all the rest.

If the strange and little-known case of Moresnet acts as our guide, we must conclude that statelessness is not only possible but beneficial to progress.

McCarthy's novel conveys the connection between capital and moral order: the core of a civilized society.

With the persecution of the Quakers mounting to a critical pitch, the stage was now set for the tragic climax: murder.

If the secret wishes of each producer were realized, the world would retrograde rapidly toward barbarism.