Power & Market
Quarantine Chronicles, No. 1: The History of the Austrian School
With many of our readers practicing social distancing, the Mises Institute is digging in our online archives to offer topic-specific collections to get you through these unprecedented times. We will highlight essays, articles, and clips that may not be widely known, but will provide a deep understanding of important concepts and history.
The Inflationary Economics of the Black Death
When productions falls and people cease to work, an influx in new money does nothing to increase the standard of living. This was true during past pandemics, and it's true today.
The FDA Continues to Actively Undermine America’s Response
Hopefully a silver lining of this current crisis will be an American awakening to what has long been clear, the FDA bureaucracy is a public health risk.
Jeff Deist Argues Against Bailouts in The Hill
Mises Institute president Jeff Deist tells The Hill why the "stimulus" bailout is very bad for America.
The Crazed Trillion Dollar Coin Proposal is Back
Even Krugman and Tlaib on some level understand the appeal of "real" coins, in tangible physical form.
What C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Teaches Us about Politics
Americans, finally facing the prospect of the mano-a-mano portion of the 2020 presidential campaign, have already learned that previous complainers about the negativity, underhandedness, and attack-dog nature of politics didn’t know how good they had it.
Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste
Here's the new narrative: free market ideologues have been running the world for far too long, but fortunately now the "era of small government is over." They're not being sarcastic.
Flattening the Economy “Because Virus”
I write this on March 18, now having watched a 180-degree reversal of how we think about contagious disease.
Why Sanders’s Populism Is the Worst Kind of Populism
Michael Moore, patronizing saint of poisoned water wells, hospital waiting lines, and the Rust Belt, has decided to shill for the establishment whi