David Brady, Jr.

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03/12/2025 Mises Wire David Brady, Jr.

William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote in 1952, “We have to accept Big Government for the duration [of the Cold War]—for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged . . . except through the...

Revisiting James Burnham

02/21/2025 Mises Wire David Brady, Jr.

Neoconservatism was born out of former Trotskyites that became anti-Communists at the end of the Second World War. After the campus protests and student movements of the late 1960s and early ‘70s...

Yes, Senator Cruz, Elon Musk should read Mises’s Bureaucracy

11/18/2024 Power & Market David Brady, Jr.

On his podcast “Verdict” November 13, Ted Cruz mentioned one of my favorite books by Ludwig von Mises: Bureaucracy. He mentioned it in reference to the “Department of Government Efficiency” that was...

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“NAFTA Fever” and the Myth of Government-Created Free Markets

12/18/2024 David Brady, Jr.

Critics of free markets claim that the 1980s and 90s were near-pure laissez-faire when, in reality, the regulatory state only got stronger.

Yes, We Should Defend the Term “Capitalism”

10/07/2024 David Brady, Jr.

Many proponents of free markets have tried to cast aside the name “capitalism” as a descriptor of the market system. They should take caution before doing so.

ESG Undermines Social Welfare

09/09/2024 David Brady, Jr.

Politicians and hedge funds that push “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) scores and investing do so with the notion of improving social welfare. What they fail to realize is that these concerns are accounted for in human action already.

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