Mises Daily

Economists of an Austrian bent just can't take off their analytical spectacles, writes Mark Thornton, even when undertaking simple life activities like driving from here to there.

How is the big spender ever able to campaign on a platform that he has reduced the cost of government to taxpayers? Robert Murphy shows what's wrong with the claim.

Sean Corrigan shows how Rome and her history can give us a reaffirmation of our unshaken belief in the ability of Everyman, acting as a free individual, to repair all the damage ever done by history’s tyrants and their tax gatherers.

The Las Vegas housing market is far from dead. But will it roar ahead after this brief hiccup as Stephen Bottfeld predicts? Is demographics Vegas's destiny? Who knows? But, one may recall that Harry Dent, Jr. used demographic studies to predict that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would reach 40,000 by 2007.

This year's Nobel laureates in economics, writes Frank Shostak, have contributed to further obscuring our understanding of the business cycle.

Chris Westley asks what Shel Silverstein really meant to say with his book The Giving Tree. It is bad economics leading to a dangerous political bent.

Two books have become almost cult classics among the academic left, and both reveal shocking ignorance of the most elementary level of economic logic. Thomas DiLorenzo explains.

In his Schlarbaum Laureate address, Hans Sennholz recounts his experiences with Mises as both mentor and friend, he regards this prize as the crowning honor.

Lew Rockwell offers a tribute to Hans Sennholz, the first student in the United States to write a dissertation and receive a PhD under the guidance of Ludwig von Mises.

New studies and articles purport to solve the problem of poverty in America, writes George Reisman, but through the same old failed methods.