Mises Daily

As layoffs mount, Brad Edmonds reflects on the purpose of the labor market, with a special focus on  academic music.

Douglas Carey explains economic anomalies such as electricity shortages, flight delays, and overcrowded roads.

A relatively balanced treatment shows they were mainly the products of enterprise, not just corruption. A review by Clifford Thies

What was his crime? To bring consumers oil, he violated laws that should not exist in the first place. Clinton was right to pardon him.

The private sector is running circles around the Post Office, writes William Stepp, but regulations and special privileges permit the government to keep gouging the consumer.

The famed economist seems never to have met a government intervention he can't justify or a tax cut he can't attack, writes Christopher Westley.

The Austrian concept of capital envisions not a great blob, but complex orders of goods interlocked in complementary structures, writes Gene Callahan.

Politicians forever exhort us to “work together” in the common interest, notes William Anderson. But what about the cooperation that occurs each day within the private marketplace?

Wendy McElroy decries the EU's attempt to legislate equal rights for women: it will bring about a new form of despotism, she warns.

From rolling blackouts to water shortages, California's troubles result from regulation, says Thomas DiLorenzo