Should Government Promote Entrepreneurship?
That’s the title of my talk tomorrow evening at the CEVRO Institut in Prague (5pm, Tuesday 9 October). You can probably anticipate the answer, but you have to come for the full explanation!
Mises on Secession
If Mises stopped short of affirming the full right of individual secession, it was only because of what he regarded as technical grounds.
The Privatization of Space
The author’s intention to promote private enterprise in space is appreciated, but the book falls short in places.
Government Can Be Prevented! Repelling States: Evidence from Upland Southeast Asia
“The peoples of the vast Southeast Asian region of Zomia were successful in providing incentives against statecraft--that is, they successfully prevented their own appropriation by external states and successfully prevented local state formation--for most of their long history.
Gold Bugs and Anti-Gold Bugs
The argument over gold is a replay of the arguments of Adam Smith against the arguments of the mercantilists.
World War I on the Home Front
[Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal (2010)]
Historian Hunt Tooley will be teaching World War One: A Revisionist Perspective, a Mises Academy online course, starting October 29.
Hegel and the Romantic Age
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 11 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995).
QE Infinity as a Hail Mary
U. S. Monetary Policy, during and since the economic slowdown and financial crisis, has been criticized by non-Austrian economists such as John B. Taylor as a mondustrial policy and as a movement from central banking to central planning by John H. Cochrane. Austrians have long viewed central banking and monetary policy as financial central planning.
Conflict of Principles
[Included in The Bastiat Collection (2011), this article appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).]
There is one thing that confounds me, and it is this. Sincere publicists, studying the economy of society from the producer’s point of view, have laid down this double formula:“Governments should order the interests of consumers who are subject to their laws, in such a way as to be favorable to national industry.”
Theory vs. Practice
[Included in The Bastiat Collection (2011), this article appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).]
As advocates of free trade, we are accused of being theorists, and of not taking practice sufficiently into account. “What fearful prejudices were entertained against Mr. Say,” says Mr. Ferrier,
