Mises Daily

In this excerpt from his new book, Hans-Hermann Hoppe shows how taxation corrupts the political culture and harms social well being.

In this excerpt from his new book, Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues that any form of taxation implies a reduction of income a person can expect to receive from original appropriation, from production, or from contracting.

James Sheehan writes that randomness influences all types of human action and helpfully exposes the futility of macroeconomics and econometrics, to say nothing of the attempt by government to plan.

Deducting personal monetary outlays from disposable money income yields personal saving, and this has been plunging. But Frank Shostak says that this data can't be taken seriously. 

Somalia is in the news again, writes Yumi Kim. Rival gangs are shooting each other, and why? The reason is always the same: the prospect that the weak-to-invisible transitional government in Mogadishu will become a real government with actual power.

Per Bylund identifies a problem statists face on an everyday basis when discussing philosophy and politics.

Bastiat's classic essay in its original English translation. "The law perverted! The law...become the tool of every kind of avarice, instead of being its check!

This talk was delivered to the Auburn University Libertarians on February 16, 2006.

Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801 — 1850) is one of the greatest economists ever.

Writes Gennady Stolyarov, governments have often granted legal local monopolies to specific water, electricity, and natural gas companies — or provided the services themselves, with disastrous results, such as blackouts, deactivations, and prices that rise and rise.