Let Them Drink Decaf With Their Cake! Incremental Progress and Standards of Living
Happiness, thy name is coffee.
Reisman on Free Speech; Not Quite There
George Reisman does not (fully) understand the libertarian view on free speech.
No, Virginia, We Won’t Run Out of Oil. Let’s Move On.
I was in a Christian bookstore earlier today and noticed a couple of titles ringing alarm bells and tying fears of economic collapse and the end of oil to end-times prophecy. One of the reasons I love economics is that it forces us to be honest with ourselves about our beliefs.
The End of the Mega States?
In the latest edition of Radio Free Market World Report, Mises Daily author Andy Duncan talks to Mises Daily author Roman Skaskiw about the global secession movement and particularly how this applies to the United States and the European Union.
Why Do Languages Die?
The very existence of a modern nation-state, and the ideology it encompasses, is antithetical to linguistic diversity.
Gloom, Doom, and Optimism
The fact that optimists are so pessimistic about the economy should cause you to take notice and ask if maybe there is something to all this gloom and doom.
Set Culture Free
Intellectual-property advocate Robert Levine ignores the group that all of this is meant to serve: the consumers.
What is a “Political Entrepreneur”?
Austrian economics often focuses on the vital role the entrepreneur plays in driving the economy, through the constant arrangement of the capital structure, in order to provide consumers with a constant stream of goods and services. But the question of what happens when government tries its hand at the same function of ownership, uncertainty-bearing, and decision-making is not addressed much in Austrian theory (see the literature review in the link).
Life without and with the Institute
Please help us move forward in 2012 to wipe the floor — intellectually speaking! — with the Keynesians, the socialists, the fascists.
Free Speech and Occupy Wall Street
A major lesson to be learned from the occupation is that hardly anyone nowadays understands the meaning of freedom of speech.
