Mises Wire

In their desire to make economic theory emulate physical sciences, economist create models that do not reflect genuine human action.

While many believe that technology is key to a growing economy, technology is useless without entrepreneurship, which develops uses for technology.

The Republicans' "Fiscal Responsibility Act" allows the government to continue adding trillions of dollars of debt that will be monetized by the Federal Reserve.

In the preindustrial world, aggression and physical domination were often labeled as "masculine" virtues because they were useful for survival. The rise of the cooperative market economy changed all that. 

While environmentalism seems to hold the moral high ground with US elites, in truth it is antihuman and economically and socially destructive.

Political leaders of the so-called liberal Western regimes are engaging in authoritarian tactics to quell legitimate dissent. But leftists who riot and burn get a free pass.

While F.A. Hayek's famous 1945 essay effectively critiques the "perfect information" hypothesis, it is an inadequate explanation of the issue of economic calculation.

In 2023, self-employment has collapsed again with year-over-year self-employment growth dropping by 6.5 percent. That's the largest drop since December 2007, when the Great Recession officially began. 

Political cronyism and legal plunder are especially visible in the alliances between pharmaceutical corporations, the banking industry, “tech” companies, and the state.

People commonly believe that a society without central political authority will dissolve into chaos. But a small kingdom within Spain existed peacefully for seven hundred years under what we would call anarchy.