Mises.org #1, Circle Bastiat #12
Mises.org scores #1 website in Austrian Economics and our Circle Bastiat blog came in at #12 on the list of the top 40 at Commodity HQ. Keep up the good work!
When the FDA Declared War on a Texas AIDS Patient
The focus of Dallas Buyers Club is on the crony-capitalist relationship that exists among the American health care system, the pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA. The monopoly power that results from this union is used to stifle a person’s right to consume what he wants and treat himself as he sees fit.
Currency War Means Currency Suicide
What the media calls a “currency war,” whereby nations engage in competitive currency devaluations in order to increase exports, is really “currency suicide.”
LECTURE EXCERPT: What is Economic Law?
Excerpted from Lecture 3 of Robert Murphy’s “Basics of Economics: Action and Exchange”, which is available as an independent study course. Sign up for Dr. Murphy’s “Basics of Economics: An Introduction to the Free Market”, which starts in January 2014.
Nelson Mandela’s Battles Against Socialism, Unionism, and Interventionism
That’s the title of my latest LewRockwell.com article about the form of socialistic interventionism known as “apartheid” and Nelson Mandela’s role in opposing it.
Mandela and the Economics of Apartheid
Nelson Mandela, public face of the anti-Apartheid movement and South Africa’s first post-Apartheid president, has died. Much will be written about Mandela in the coming days, but little of it will deal directly with the Apartheid system, particularly its economic aspects.
The Place of Austrian Economics in Contemporary Entrepreneurship Research
That’s the title of a new working paper by Per Bylund and me. It’s forthcoming in a special issue of the Review of Austrian Economics devoted to the contributions of Israel Kirzner.
The Place of Austrian Economics in Contemporary Entrepreneurship Research Peter G. Klein and Per L.
Bitcoin Quandary
It is important for our system of payments to improve over time and this means that we need experiments like Bitcoin to take place. Ron Paul says that if Bitcoin is successful then the government will crush it. Now there is a problem.
Judge Napolitano on the Pope’s Economics
Mises Institute Distinguished Scholar Judge Napolitano today examines the current Pope’s economics:
Guardians of the Warfare State
The secretary of defense is the cabinet position that most frequently crosses party lines.
