Power & Market

George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen has penned a brief manifesto for "State Capacity Libertarianism."

The Mises Institute is happy to welcome Daniella Bassi to our staff!

There are certainly good reasons to impeach presidents, but Trump's alleged "treason" isn't one of them.

Butler Shaffer, a major libertarian legal scholar and theorist, died yesterday.

Frederic Bastiat made a clear distnction between the good economist and the bad economist. For him, the good economist looks beyond what is immediately apparent and instead looks much further into the future.

The real question is whether each is based in liberty or coercion.

"The left Smithians have some good points ... but generally speaking, they're overplaying their hand."

We have two options in explaining how the FBI conducted itself in relation to the FISA court and its clearly illegal and immoral efforts to spy on at least one American citizen involved in the 2016 presidential campaigns: 1. Gross incompetence/negligence. 2. Intent to do harm.

If Scots choose Holyrood over Westminster, or even Brussels over Holyrood, who are we to object?

Just because a worker has relatively low productivity is no reason to outlaw that person's job. But that is what minimum wage increases do.