Mises Daily

We have heard all the claims 10,000 times, and here William Anderson deals with the main ones.

Eric Mattei explains the implications of 'civil rights' interventions: some must serve others regardless of their own personal choices.

Harry Valentine writes that South Africa's long term economic future appears bleak due to the policies that the nation's government has already enacted.

If the Department of Labor's overtime guidelines are implemented, writes Chris Westley, both workers and employers will be harmed.

Print publications are subject to no FCC-style censor, writes Gardner Goldsmith, and the market has managed itself quite well.

Grant Nülle discusses a form of outsourcing that is unproductive, costly, and warlike.

Politicians haven't the capacity to lead whole societies anywhere, writes Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. They are outclassed and outrun by trends in the world economy that are beyond the ability of the political class to control or direct. The market economy—globalized, enormously powerful, breathtaking in scope and breadth—is remaking the world in ways that far surpass any existing political development in the US, from the crafted blather of Congressional hearings on this or that to the mad rush to grab the presidential brass rings.

Anti-outsourcing theories implicitly assume that high production costs are a source of wealth, argues Bill Anderson.

The first World War might also be called the war that never ends, writes Ralph Raico.

The trend over the past fifty years has been for a gradual reduction in the number employed in manufacturing, says Jude Blanchette, but both output and productivity have increased.