Mises Daily

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.

Paul Craig Roberts's latest article, writes Robert Murphy, issues the direst warnings and hurls the strongest insults yet. 

Vedran Vuk, as an economics major, thinks that it's not such a bad thing to treat one's beloved like property, so long as it is private property.

C.J. Maloney extols the glories of the Mengerian approach to economics.

The first chapter of Murray Rothbard's magisterial History of Economic Thought stretches far back in time.

Robert Murphy argues that Murray Newton Rothbard (1926—1995) was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.

There is nothing magical or mysterious about the a priori foundations of economics, writes Gene Callahan. 

Federal screeners may wave wands in airports, writes Abby Johnson, but they aren’t magic.

Bush is raising false hopes, diverting career paths, and wasting money, writes Lew Rockwell. He is also raising a non-problem and purporting to solve it with a non-solution.

The single most frustrating thing about being an economist, writes Robert Murphy, is that, 200+ years after its official birth, the field of economics hasn't convinced the rest of the world about even its most elementary propositions.