Mises Daily

No one wants a needle park in his or her neighborhood, but that is exactly what prohibition brings.

Jefferson writes mournfully, "What a cruel reflection, that a rich country can not long be a free one!"

Mere work — that is, effort not guided by a rational plan and not aided by the employment of tools and intermediary products — brings about very little for the improvement of the worker's condition. Such work is not a specifically human device. It is what man has in common with all other animals.

This spontaneous social order dissolves into chaos every so often: when a city cop decides to enforce state order over social order.

The Brazilian government is not the legitimate owner of the forest area that it declares to be under its domain.

Austrian coordination does not represent a destructive struggle between entrepreneur and consumer. Instead, it is a theory of progress.

If the free market does in fact move toward full employment, the entire Keynesian "general theory" falls apart.

In this wonderful debate, we find the whole of the theoretical apparatus of the anti-IP case presented with precision and eloquence.