Mises Daily Thursday by Finbar Feehan-Fitzgerald:
Zimbabwe, in the aftermath of years of hyperinflation, today has nine different currencies that are officially legal tender. The emerging system of multiple currencies offers a chance to make some interesting observations.
Louis Rouanet, a French student who is presently an intern at the Mises Institute, writes:
Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of Murray Rothbard.
Mises Daily Wednesday by Patrick Barron:
True welfare and value can only be achieved through exchange when it is fully voluntary. When the state intervenes to “improve” trade, it destroys value, all the government stats notwithstanding...
Uber has jumped on the scene as the quintessential example of the new technology-driven “sharing economy.” The company allows customers to request rides from a mobile app, which will select a nearby Uber driver to taxi you to your desired located. Uber itself has simply exploded, and is now worth some $40 billion dollars and made around $2 billion in revenue in 2013.
Left-wing revolution is one of history’s biggest bait-and-switches. Both for the intellectuals who hanker for the grapeshot, and for the marginalized peoples who get concentration camps instead of the anti-capitalist utopia they were promised.
Mises’s 1944 book Bureaucracy is now available for audio download on iTunesU and in the Mises Library.
This audio book is available thanks to the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger.
Mises Daily Tuesday by Allen Mendenhall:
Designed to redress the wrongs of the major injustice of slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment is now used by the federal courts to micromanage nearly every aspect of modern life. Strangely, many libertarians continue to support the amendment in spite of this.
