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First, Superman clearly needs an agent. Second, a background in economics sometimes makes movie viewing difficult.

Under decentralized government, close elections might still make for enjoyable standoffs, but the stakes would not be nearly so high.

Economic science per se cannot establish ethical statements. The problem of 'welfare economics' has always been to find some way to circumvent this restriction on economics….The free market is the name for the array of all the voluntary exchanges that take place in the world.

There is no debate that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. With the Fed's policy of deliberately manufacturing inflation we are playing with fire.

Pixar’s latest flick, Cars, is kid-friendly, but it fails to carry over to adults the capitalist themes of previous productions.Three Mises Institute summer fellows explain.

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It's the code that Isabel Paterson, the great twentieth-century libertarian, had in mind when she said that modern ideas of freedom are dependent on "the axiom of liberty" embedded in Christian teaching.

A doctrine may be modern, fashionable, generally accepted and nevertheless detrimental to human society, civilization and survival. The first step to every attempt to investigate social, political, and economic changes has to be the study of the changes of the ideas which guided men to bring about these changes. The theories which build up or disintegrate social cooperation can only be proved or refuted by pure reasoning. They cannot be exposed to the simple examination of the experiment.

Mises's students followed up on many of the ideas listed here, other topics have been explored in a half-century of economic writing, while many more are left undone. May they inspire the Misesians of this generation to see the Austrian School as a research paradigm that is constantly developing.

The politics of the environmentalists are increasingly predictable and obvious. They oppose all forms of capitalistic innovation. Indeed, they represent a special kind of danger to the human race that socialism never did.