The Role of Value in Human Action
[Understanding the Dollar Crisis (1973)]
In this lecture we address ourselves to the role of value in economics.
What Is Economics?
Introducing Virtual Mises University
Can’t make it to Auburn this year? Sign up for Virtual Mises U. Only $20!
Is There a Right to Unionize?
It is wrong to equate the supposed “right to unionize” with freedom of association.
In Praise of Government Gridlock
As Mises wrote, “government efficiency and industrial efficiency are entirely different things.”
Make Profits, Not War
In a previous article, “Tax-Loving Conservatives,” I wrote about an invisible line down the middle of your street. Jones lives on the other side. You live on your side. Jones makes you an offer to sell something 10 percent cheaper than Smith sells. Smith lives on your side of the street.
Professor Hoppe on Socialized Health Care
“With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.”
New Documentary on the Great Recession
Here is a new crowdfunded documentary on the financial crisis produced by Austrian economist Jesús Huerta de Soto!
The Bubble
Congratulations to Jimmy Morrison who has written and produced The Bubble a film on our view of the financial crisis. The trailer premiered last Friday at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas. The inspiration for the film, Tom Woods, then moderated a panel discussion on the crisis which included David Tice, Peter Schiff, Doug Casey, and Gene Epstein.
