Mises Daily
Paid to Fight, Paid More to Die
Thanks to a little-noticed item in Bush's budget, writes Joseph Potts, it won't just be Islamist suicide bombers whose families are limned and paid off for the death of their fighters.
A Free Market in Workplace Regulations
In a true free-market secured to private property rights, writes Ninos Malek, employers can determine employee qualifications on any grounds whatsoever.
The Myth of the Neutral Interest Rate Policy
Current monetary policy, writes Frank Shostak, is based on a theory of Knut Wicksell. How does Wicksell stack up to Mises?
Microsoft in Wonderland
European antitrust regulators have taken the worst of American antitrust "analysis," argues DT Armentano, and made it even worse.
The American Militarist State: JLS 18.4
This week sees the release of what is, in light of recent events, an especially timely issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies.
Power By Any Other Name
The true state of the Union, writes DW MacKenzie, is that its chief executive fails to grasp the profound truth that central planning by political elites can never match the results of decentralized planning by the general public--even when it is done in the name of liberty.
Vouchers: Another Income Redistribution Scheme
Considering the state of public education, aren't vouchers a step in the right direction? Laurence Vance says no: vouchers will make the present system worse.
Ayn Rand’s Contribution to the Cause of Freedom
Roderick Long celebrates Ayn Rand's work and influence in this piece written on the centenary of her birth.
Liberty and Order, Home and Abroad
Serious thinkers have known for centuries that society is a complex, spontaneous order, which cannot be centrally directed at gunpoint.