Mises Daily

Did the EU bring free trade to Europe? Not at all, says Terry Arthur. The heyday of free trade was the 100 years between the Napoleonic Wars and World War 1.

Colleges offer their students a taste of reality by simulating the political atmosphere of society with the presence of student government associations (SGAs), writes Daniel D'Amico. It's a dreadful reality indeed.

Competition is a productive aspect of the market economy, writes Ninos Malek, but sometimes businesses urge the government to intervene when their competitors pose a threat. This is the driving force behind antitrust legislation.

Market prices for water? Would that mean the end of some farms in California and elsewhere in the West? Yes, says William Anderson, that is exactly what that means. The government has engaged in egregiously wasteful policies in order to politically distribute water.

For all the talk about the triumph of capitalism, write J. Stromberg and J. Tucker, the free market has few friends in politics or the world of ideas. Thus do the writings Murray Rothbard, the leading defender of the market economy of his generation, still shock and clarify.

After so much fighting for so long, at last France and Germany find a common cause: resist economic reform and shore up the state apparatus as long as possible. Grant Nülle examines the scene.

A life of fidelity to Leviathan in a government bureaucracy is neither a badge of honor nor the mark of a meaningful life, writes Chris Westley.

The Fed's recent decisions, writes Frank Shostak, are part of a new effort to conduct monetary policy in the absence of "shocks."

Some eagle-eyed reporters have been snooping around for the cause of Wal-Mart's successes, reports Art Carden, and discovered consumer service.

In his "Anti-capitalism" essay, writes Ralph Reiland, Mises focused on how senseless it was for underdeveloped countries to be sending the elite of their youth to American and European universities.