Mises Daily

For the editors of The Changing Face of Economics (Colander, Holt, and Rosser, University of Michigan Press, 2004) "cutting edge" is more than a phrase. 

What a difference a decade can make.

Writes Antony Mueller: Coercive capital-based systems do not eliminate the vicious cycle of wealth destruction.

America's trade woes have deep root in how our public finances are conducted, writes Sean Corrigan.

How is Social Security different in kind from any other government program? Charles Rounds argues that it is not different at all.

Every season there is a new contender for the conservative mini-treatise of the day. Usually written by the newest would-be Buckley, it offers readers a new way of understanding the ideological climate and a new perspective on how conservatives should fit within it.

Chris Westley explains that the only thing new about New Deal policies was their name and the people administering them.

Is Freakonomics worth the hype? Yes and no, in Robert Murphy's opinion.

Do you remember when you discovered the great truths of economics? Maybe this moment came when reading Henry Hazlitt, or Ludwig von Mises, or F.A. Hayek, or Murray Rothbard. Maybe your intuition and experience led you to it. Help others to do the same.

Murray Rothbard, in this classic essay originally published in 1991, offers the most "pure" proposal of all: private mintage, 100 percent reserve banking, circulating coins, full convertibility.