Jeremy Rifkin long has perfected the art of adding two and two and getting five. In the 1980s, he claimed that the Law of Entropy made it impossible to a free economy to exist, which meant that the State needed to plan and run things. (How the State would triumph over the Second Law of Thermodynamics is anyone’s guess, but Rifkin doesn’t need facts or even science, just wild conjecture.) He later declared that a new “hydrogen economy” was just around the corner – government just needed to engage in central planning and order hydrogen to be our new fuel of choice.

My local newspaper, The Tallahassee Democrat, ran a story on March 19 reporting on a talk given by former Florida Governor and former US Senator Bob Graham. In his talk, Graham calls for more civic engagement. His talk was a part of a larger program titled “Choosing to Participate: The Power of Civic Engagement.”

by David Stockman 

Associate Scholar Benjamin Powell’s new book Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy was recently published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Powell spoke with the Mises Institute about his new book.

Roundaboutness is Not a Mysterious Concept: A Financial Application to Capital Theory Nicolas Cachanosky, Metropolitan State University of Denver Peter Lewin, University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics March 16, 2014

A bit late, but some great reads here! Top 50 most-read Mises Dailies during 2013, by unique page views:

Critics point to the Russian “occupation” of Crimea as evidence that no fair vote could have taken place. Where were these people when an election held in an Iraq occupied by U.S. troops was called a “triumph of democracy”? Perhaps the U.S.

by David Stockman