Vipin Veetil is an economics assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Akash Kumar

Akash Kumar is a senior year Development Studies major at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

President’s Impact Report — First Quarter 2020

Mises.org

In the first quarter of 2020, mises.org had over 4 million unique pageviews, an increase of 26 percent from fourth quarter 2019. With 108,782 pageviews, March 31 was the highest-traffic day for the website in over four years.

The Spanish traffic to mises.org/es continues to grow with 365,691 unique pageviews in the first quarter, up 342 percent from the first quarter of 2019 (365,691 vs. 82,733). Mises.org/es translations comprise 9 percent of all mises.org traffic.

How Shutdowns Will Keep Killing the Economy, Even When They’re Over

Imagine what it is like right now to plan for the future as a business owner. The owner doesn’t know if he or she will even be allowed to be open for business two weeks from now, or a month from now.

Indeed, politicians and their unelected (and unaccountable) health advisors keep insisting that they might elect to close down businesses or impose new restrictions on large portions of the economy at any time.