Mises Daily

Is Australia a dry country? Not at all, writes Benjamin Marks. It has more rainfall than the United States!

Gilligan's Island economics can provide useful thought experiments, writes B.K. Marcus, for the same reasons Robinson Crusoe economics has served as a staple of classical and Austrian School economics texts.

The term "overworked" can be highly subjective, writes Carl Horowitz. Even a classic workaholic has a point at which he says "enough!"

Dale Steinreich's June article about the centenary of the founding of the American Medical Association caused a tremendous uproar. Here is his answer to critics.

Last year, the governor of Alabama proposed and then overwhelmingly lost a bitter referendum to increase taxes and boost revenue, writes Chris Westley.

Frank Shostak explains what Mises meant when he wrote that: "The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself." Most individuals in the western world take the ample availability of goods and services for granted.

Katy Delay writes of a group of Democrats who are working to revive the "third way" fashion from the 1990s.

Ads like this one make me shudder, mainly because I once thought of myself as a conservative (for both good and bad reasons).

Could it be that Andrea Hackett will get the last laugh? Ms. Hackett, who once used to be Mr. Hackett, is the gal who formed the Las Vegas Dancer Alliance in an attempt to organize the legions of women who ply their trade at the numerous adult cabarets around town.

Why the EU 3% limit for budget deficits was chosen (as opposed to 1% or 2%) as the yardstick for profligacy is not altogether clear, writes Grant Nülle.