Four-time summer fellow at the Mises Institute, Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski, emails: “Over the last two years I wrote over 600 liberty-themed aphorisms, which I have recently published as a book, entitled The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty.”
In the volume you’ll find wisdom such as:
A bad economist believes that pay can be legislated. A good economist believes that legislation can be paid for.
Mises Daily Wednesday | William L. Anderson
In a recent appearance before Congress, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates declared that the US Department of Justice is going to ratchet up its prosecution of individuals employed in corporations as part of a larger push against “white collar crime.”
Jeff Deist and Lew Rockwell joined Tom Woods today on the 500th episode of his Tom Woods Show.
Topics include Murray Rothbard, Donald Trump, the global growth of Austrian economics and much more!
As expected the oil boom bust is hitting the real estate market in North Dakota very hard.
“We are overbuilt,” said Dan Kalil, a commissioner in Williams County in the heart of the Bakken, a 360-million-year-old shale bed, during a break from cutting flax on his farm. “I am concerned about having hundreds of $200-a-month apartments in the future.”
In a recent appearance before Congress, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates declared that the US Department of Justice is going to ratchet up its prosecution of individuals employed in corporations as part of a larger push against “white collar crime.” There is no doubt that such prosecutions will be very popular to a large section of voters, given that presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Martin O’Malley, along with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren pretty much have declar
For decades, Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the leading spokesman for the Austrian school of economics. An advocate of free markets and a critic of government interference, he stood for peaceful and voluntary cooperation. Whenever possible, he spoke out for individual freedom. Yet he grew up in Europe when socialism was on the rise and people wanted government to regulate “profiteering” capitalists who “exploited” workers. How did Mises, schooled in such an environment, acquire free market ideas?
For decades, Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the leading spokesman for the Austrian school of economics. An advocate of free markets and a critic of government interference, he stood for peaceful and voluntary cooperation. Whenever possible, he spoke out for individual freedom. Yet he grew up in Europe when socialism was on the rise and people wanted government to regulate “profiteering” capitalists who “exploited” workers. How did Mises, schooled in such an environment, acquire free market ideas?
Roberty Murphy writes at American Thinker:
Nobody follows the Billboard charts anymore. In an age of music downloads, the “Top 40” ranking is pretty meaningless. But who cares about that music stuff when you can keep track of the top scholarly articles at the Social Science Research Network?
