Minimum wage laws force unemployment up. All of those with few skills looking for an entry position will be denied because they cannot add enough value to the business labor field to be paid minimum wage. Unemployment follows minimum wage hikes. Marginal workers are being denied the labor market.
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (30:28)
James Bovard discusses Bush, Terrorism, and Freedom at the 2002 Austrian Scholars Conference.
The role of the intellectual is a perennial question. Why do they act the way they do? Why are they hostile to the free market? Is the state really virtuous and the market really vicious? Mises thought the anti-capitalist mentality was rooted in envy. He also thought our entire culture was soaked in contempt for money-making.
Professor Hoppe presents a pre-conference discussion of his book Democracy: The God that Failed at the 2002 Austrian Schola
Jorg Guido Hülsmann addresses some of the Problems in Cycle Theory at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(30:35)
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (40:45)
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(29:32)
