Mises Daily

The concept of the perfect system of government is fallacious and self-contradictory.

The Jeffersonian states'-rights tradition is the key to understanding why Thomas Jefferson believed that the best government is that which governs least.

The claim by "Adam Smith" that capitalism is what currently exists around the world is flatly mistaken.

Should profits give way to social or environmental concerns? The results would be disastrous.

To suggest that people have an unlimited demand for money is not realistic, given  that people require goods to support their lives and well-being.

This course, the first of a two-part series, will cover the first volume of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought.

Scottish banks were not free (they too pyramided on the Bank of England) and, not surprisingly, they worked no better than the English banks.

Have you been carefully studying the scholarship of liberty in the Austrian tradition? If so, then you should be writing for Mises.org.

Otto Bauer was not a born trailblazer, and one could not expect him to come up with new ideas. But had he not been a Marxist, he could have become a statesman.