Mises Daily

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. 

The President today, writes Adam Young, is the focus of political and increasingly social life. He is presented to the public as an all-purpose master of every issue and situation, a veritable demigod in his reputation for near omniscience and infallibility.

Why didn't private entrepreneurs finance the moon program in the 1960s? Robert Murphy explains that the financial returns from such a project wouldn’t come close to covering the expenses, which is a market signal.

Neoclassical economists often make matters more complicated than necessary; but, fortunately, the best of them manage to stumble close

How is the Philippine government going to avert a looming fiscal crisis, which has been mounting for years? Of course, writes Grant Nülle, taxpayers will have to atone for the enormous debts run up by bureaucrats, legislators and managers of GOCCs.

Historians are fond of saying that the Progressive Era ended at the end of World War I, writes William Anderson. 

If socialists of old resented Pravda for giving them a bad name, writes Lew Rockwell, free enterprisers ought to feel the same about the Wall Street Journal's editorial page.

Katy Delay offers a critique of David Brooks's suggestion that the Republican Party come to love the state and manufacture a thousand ways to expand it.

Well meaning or not, the boycott of Taco Bell by misguided activists, in the name of helping labor, is deeply ignorant and very destructive, writes Daniel D'Amico.