Mises Daily

The percolation of ideas is an endlessly fascinating topic, and Margit von Mises adds scores of detail that will enable her readers to track the penetration of Mises's philosophy to the most unlikely places.

True enough, while I would have met the qualifications of planning to go on for a secondary education, having a 3.0 GPA or better, and being a varsity letter winner, I wouldn't have stood a chance against the student athletes I'm considering this year, or any who have applied the last few years we've awarded the "Frenchie."

"Zamyatin's book was the first to be banned by the newly created censorship board."

"The Keynesian model can't capture the fact that during the boom period, society 'eats the seed corn' through malinvestment."

The first step on this road to lesser government and greater freedom is to see the VAT for the swindle that it is, and to send it down to defeat.

"Nothing has been easier than to treat with contempt all the legislative provisions for the protection of the monetary standard. All governments, even the weakest and most incapable, have managed it without difficulty."

"We are in a frightening state of affairs, where the government feels the need to commit acts of aggression, through the use of tariffs and quotas, as means of 'economic defense'."

"Class interest led him almost always to the side of the smaller political unit against encroachment by the larger, because the greater the power of local self-government, as a rule, the better for the producer and the worse for the exploiter."

It is time to challenge head on the nonsense of the Phillips Curve, Keynesianism, and inflationary theft, and all the rest.

He could not see also that these producers did not create such needs, but instead were fulfilling them and thereby removing the want and pain of their customers and adding to their happiness and standard of living. If he had gone that far, he would have realized the nonsense of his dog-eat-dog, or what would now be called his "zero-sum-game" view of the marketplace.