Mises on Mind and Method
It has become a popular trick among people who are unprepared to grapple with Austrian economics to try to short-circuit the debate.
The Comuneros: The Revolt and Its Lessons
The almost-lost story of the Revolt of the Comuneros was more than an uprising of the citizens of the Kingdom of Castile against the monarchy.
Mises Wiki Grows and Grows
Some random new material:
Suggested Readings on Environmental Economics and Law
Richard Sandor spoke at Rhodes yesterday, and his lecture raised a number of points we have talked about this semester in my econ 100 class. For readers interested in studying environmental issues further and/or pursuing law as a career, here are a few things to read:
The Failure of Swedish Schools. To the Left and Right
Tino Sanandaji analyzes data on the Swedish school system on his blog, where increasing “privatization” (a Friedmanite voucher system) and quickly dropping test scores seem to correlate. After first debunking the left’s view that the problem of Swedish education is because of private schools and profits, he debunks the right’s view that the voucher system (a supposedly “capitalist” system) will put an end to the degenerating school system.
Will John Stossel have bourbon for breakfast?
Set Kids Free to Work
Old folks are working and teenagers are laying around doing nothing. It didn’t used to be this way. Kids used to find a job as soon as they had the desire for two very important things: get out of the house and get money in their hands.
Why Religious People Struggle with Economics
Let’s say that Jesus had not offered salvation to all but instead had restricted the number of units of salvation to exactly 1,000.
Where Is QE2 Taking Us?
Five months into the second round of quantitative easing — “QE2” — it is useful to take stock of what it has, and has not, accomplished. QE2 has begun to deliver on all the dangers of which the critics warned, but not the alleged benefits.
Pushing Buttons Like the Jetsons
The show was neither utopian nor dystopian. It was the best of life as we know it projected far into the future.
