Why Discriminate?
In the days of yore, to say that a man was discriminating was to pay him a compliment. It meant that he had taste: he could distinguish between the poor, the mediocre, the good, and the excellent.
The Importance of a Free Press
Glenn Greenwald’s post this morning and some of my reading for a revision of my paper with Chris Coyne on the Memphis Riot of 1866 got me thinking about the importance of a free press and a competitive marketplace for ideas.
Mises on BBC Radio
I’m told that Ludwig von Mises is mentioned on this BBC show on the Industrial Revolution. Maybe someone can listen and comment on precisely where during the 45-minute show.
Christopher Beam Takes On Libertarianism
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. But even though the New York author, Christopher Beam, tries to be fair to libertarians, in the end he thinks their worldview is wacko. Here is where Beam goes wrong.
The Mises Daily Top 10 of 2010
Mises Daily authors possess a skill held by very few others; they are able to take complex topics and convey them in a form that is accessible, concise, and enjoyable to read. Here are the smash hits of 2010.
Another Genius Idea from Central Planning
It doesn’t seem to matter to Obama that the federal debt already has us $14 trillion in the hole — $140,000 per household. The answer from the Harvard masterminds is to unionize the contractors and subcontractors, to jack up the price of a mile of road to even more inflated levels.
Europe’s Tragic Crisis
At the root of the current crisis in Europe are the actions of the European Central Bank. As Philipp Bagus explains in his new book, only a realization of the true costs the euro has imposed on the continent in the past can shed light on the path to future recovery.
Boettke: Kids, Don’t Try AE At Home
In a lengthy interview economist Peter Boettke explains his views on the future of Austrian economics and what he is doing form his position as a university faculty member to advance the academic conversation around the Mises-Hayek tradition. It is my view that any social-intellectual change movement can and should use a variety of strategies.
Henry Hazlitt on TV in 1951
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Krugman’s Straw-Man Market System
While Austrians see how individuals working through free markets have bettered their life situations, Krugman and his colleagues see only chaos, failure, and bad food.
