How the “Bourgeois Deal” Enriched the World
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden
University of Chicago Press, 2020
xvii + 227 pages
Lockdowns Are More Economically Devastating Than Voluntary Social Distancing
Decentralization Is a Step toward Self-Determination
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For decades now, advocates for freedom and free markets have disagreed over whether or not political decentralization and local self-governance are important principles in themselves.
Hayek’s Political Argument against Socialism
Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom was a bestseller when it was published in 1944, and it has remained ever since one of the classic works in the literature of liberty. Many people, though, find it hard to understand. After Glenn Beck featured the book on his television show in 2010, resulting in a surge in demand for it, one noted speaker at Mises Institute events told me he found the book dense and difficult, and he predicted that Hayek’s new readers would soon turn away from the book in bafflement.
Virtual Mises University 2021
Homicides Are Way Up in 2020, and Covid Lockdowns Are a Likely Cause
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Twenty twenty was an unpleasant year for so many reasons. It was a year of riots, unemployment, and the trend in overall rising mortality continued unabated.
Homicides also increased.
The Opportunity of a Lifetime
A hedge fund in New York known to Mises is looking for two interns for this summer. “I thought Mises was a good place to look given that our world views are the same. Qualifications: smart, hungry to succeed, finance education, desire to work in finance, common sense, high EQ, abstract thinker, believer in American exceptionalism, willing to work long hours.”
If so, send your resume to me at rockwell@mises.org.
Austrian Economics Research Conference 2022
The Border Crisis Is the Latest Example of Government “Efficiency”
By nearly any standard, the US government’s administration of border control is a disaster.
If the goal is to limit border crossings, things are a mess. If the goal is to facilitate more legal immigration, things are a mess. If the goal is simply to give every potential immigrant a timely hearing, that too is a mess. The only scenario in which the current situation is a success is the one in which advocates for unrestrained migration cynically attempt to overwhelm the system in the hope it can be rendered inoperable.
The Lack of a Principled Immigration Policy in the US
To date, no major political party in the United States has issued a coherent, principled policy on immigration. Without a principled policy, political jockeying has been the rule of the day.
