Peak Oil Was Nonsense, and the Ghost of the 1981 Oil Price Crash Looms

Mises Daily Monday by Matt Battaglioli: 

Many advocates for socialized medicine point to the World Health Organization’s claim that US healthcare ranks below dozens of other countries. But these rankings are biased in favor of cheap health care over quality health care... 

A recent article in the left-leaning Independent argued that student volunteers are useless. In one project putting UK college students to work building a local school, the work was so awful that local Ugandan masons “dismantled the structurally unsound work [the students] had done — relaying bricks and resetting timbers whilst the students slept.”

[This is David Gordon’s introductory essay to Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s new book From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy.]

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a master of theoretical history. He tells us that

it is not my purpose here to engage in standard history, i.e., history as it is written by historians, but to offer a logical or sociological reconstruction of history, informed by actual historical events, but motivated more fundamentally by theoretical — philosophical and economic — concerns.

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One of today’s most commonly referenced statistics against a free-market healthcare system, is the World Health Organization’s ranking of healthcare systems around the world. It places countries with socialized medicine like France (ranked no. 1) at the top, and ranks the United States as low as no. 37. Largely from this verdict by the WHO, many Americans calling for a healthcare reform want a reform in the direction of socialized medicine.

Mises Daily Weekend by Ray Walter. 

Mises University Alumnus Ray Walter, now a PhD student in physics and mathematics at the University of Arkansas, discusses his work with the Mises Institute and how it has influenced his academic career.

Jeff Deist and Peter St. Onge discuss some of the fundamental questions about money in this electronic age. What do Menger and Mises tell us about the origins of money? What’s the difference between “money” and a “medium of exchange”? Was Hayek right about degrees of “moneyness”?

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