Mises Daily

Two camps are arguing about development economics. Both are wrong, says Christopher Coyne. 

The system has never worked but less now than ever. Gene Callahan calls for eliminating patent protection.

A fairly well-established subclass of neoclassical economics fails to get to the root of the problem, argues Chris Westley. 

The jury verdicts looting tobacco companies and exonerating the federal government at Waco are both contrary to the rule of law. 

In the past, smart French students dreamed of attending the ENA, an educational citadel of government planning. No longer.

How did the State come into being? Martin van Creveld's new book provides a new perspective, writes Joseph Stromberg. 

The most devastating effects of taxation--as with  robbery, burglary, and other forms of
confiscation--are the ones we can't see. 

In addition to sobering tales of government malfeasance, a new work by Roberts and Stratton offers us a theory explaining why these abuses occur: review by Robert Murphy 

Man does not operate based on a "utility function," but by making discrete, unpredictable decisions when faced with a choice, writes Gene Callahan.

The habits of empire are a bad fit with U.S. ideals, institutions, and love of liberty: a manifesto by Jon Basil Utley.