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Booms and BustsThe FedMedia and CultureInterventionism

Buckley's Boomsday: Loaded with Laughs

Mises DailyMarch 10, 2009Doug French

Unfortunately Obama's Road to Serfdom is not fiction and no laughing matter...

History of the Austrian School of EconomicsPolitical Theory

Society Needs No Managers

Mises DailyDecember 16, 2005Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Liberty cannot be imposed in the way that socialist systems of old were imposed, because genuine liberty is not just another form of government management, writes Lew Rockwell.

The EntrepreneurFree MarketsEntrepreneurshipInterventionism

Management: Enemy of Enterprise

Mises DailyDecember 20, 2010Doug French

Anyone who has worked in middle management has likely, at one time or another, had their big boss pass out some dopey management books that especially touched the hamster-brained sociopath (as Scott Adams would say) who was in charge of operations.

Business CyclesEntrepreneurshipPhilosophy and MethodologyProduction Theory

Management Theory Is Not to Blame

Mises DailyMarch 19, 2009Nicolai J. FossPeter G. Klein

In the same way, the path to economic recovery is to allow markets to channel specialized resources to their highest-valued uses, not to dump taxpayer funds on whatever firms and industries happen to be ready for them — or politically connected...

HealthTaxes and SpendingPrices

100 Years of Government's "Managed" Health Care

Mises DailySeptember 21, 2015Michel Accad

Government has been meddling in health care for over 100 years, and the latest health care reform is just the latest effort that will result in more expensive health care.

Big GovernmentBooms and BustsU.S. History

Why the Government Hasn’t Yet Managed to Destroy the Economy

Mises DailyFebruary 2, 2015John P. Cochran

The government cripples the economy a little more each day, but thanks to the resilience of markets, we've avoided economic destruction. Nevertheless, we're still a lot poorer than we would have been without big government...

The EntrepreneurFree MarketsEntrepreneurshipProduction Theory

What Business Management Is and What It Is Not

Mises DailyJune 5, 2009Ludwig von Mises

"A manager is a junior partner of the entrepreneur, as it were, no matter what the contractual and financial terms of his employment are."...

American Foreign Policy and National-Security Management

Mises DailyJanuary 9, 2008Leonard P. Liggio

[This essay originally appeared as the final chapter of A New History of Leviathan (1972).]

Free MarketsInterventionismProduction Theory

Does Business Need Washington to Manage Wages?

Mises DailyJanuary 15, 2007Robert P. Murphy

What's truly ironic is that this alleged benefit is reduced when the government forces every business to raise wages...

The EnvironmentFree MarketsBig Government

Katrina and the Never-Ending Scandal of State Management

Mises DailySeptember 13, 2005William L. Anderson

The Gulf Coast was hit with two disasters: Katrina and government. At every level and in every way, writes William Anderson, it made everything worse.

The FedGlobal EconomyInterventionism

Why central banks can't manage our money

Mises DailySeptember 17, 1999Albert Friedberg

The long history of fiat money and the disasters it has left in its wake. (Column by Albert Friedberg)

The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

The EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship

Management vs. The Market: An Exaggerated Distinction

Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsDon Mathews

Why do business firms exist? Do firms substitute for the market or complement the market? Why do firms buy some inputs but make others? These are basic economic questions.

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Free MarketsInterventionism

Management versus Ownership: The Road-Privatization Debate

Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsLaurent Carnis

To build a roads system, an administrative price mechanism—commercialization —may yield some solutions to the problems of public roads but it gives rise to other problems...

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Suze Orman Councils Clients on the Perfect Time to Steal $70K

BlogOctober 25, 2004David J. Heinrich

Well, you can praise someone one minute, and have to harshly criticize them the next. On the Suze Orman show, Suze advised a highly indebted guest to declare bankruptcy on approximately $70K of credit-card debt. Telling him about the legal benefits of declaring bankruptcy, she went a step...

2. Bureaucratic Management or Profit Management of Banking?

Online Text Page from A Critique of Interventionism, Ch. The Nationalization of Credit

The poor performance of public enterprises is usually blamed on bureaucratic management. In order to render state, municipal, and other public operations as successful as private enterprise they should be organized and directed along commercial lines. This is why for decades everything has been tried to make such operations more productive through “commercialization.” The problem became all the more important as state and municipal operations expanded. But not by a single step has anyone come closer to the solution.

The EntrepreneurU.S. HistoryEntrepreneurshipInterventionismProduction Theory

Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment

BooksJanuary 11, 2016Nicolai J. FossPeter G. Klein

Foss and Klein recognize entrepreneurship as judgmental decision making under uncertainty. They show how judgement is the driving force of the market economy and that to understand the performance of a firm, its managers, and organization, the acumen of entrepreneurs and managers must be analyzed...

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13. The Traffic-Manager Analogy

Online Text Page from Power and Market: Government and the Economy, Ch. 6. Antimarket Ethics: A Praxeological Critique

Because of its popularity, we may briefly consider the “traffic-manager analogy”—the doctrine that the government must obviously regulate the economy, “just as traffic must be regulated.” It is high time that this flagrant non sequitur be consigned to oblivion. Every owner necessarily regulates his own property. In the same way, every owner of a road will lay down the rules for the use of his road. Far from being an argument for statism, management is simply the attribute of all ownership. Those who own the roads will regulate their use.

Lucas Vaz

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Lucas Vaz is a Brazilian and a student of Entrepreneurial Management, Finance, and International Business at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

C. Jay Engel

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C. Jay Engel is an investment advisor at The Sullivan Group, an independent, Austrian-School oriented, wealth management firm in northern California. He is especially interested in wealth preservation in lieu...

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Buckley's Boomsday: Loaded with Laughs

Society Needs No Managers

Management: Enemy of Enterprise

Management Theory Is Not to Blame

100 Years of Government's "Managed" Health Care

Why the Government Hasn’t Yet Managed to Destroy the Economy

What Business Management Is and What It Is Not

American Foreign Policy and National-Security Management

Does Business Need Washington to Manage Wages?

Katrina and the Never-Ending Scandal of State Management

Why central banks can't manage our money

Management vs. The Market: An Exaggerated Distinction

qjae1_3_4.pdf

Management versus Ownership: The Road-Privatization Debate

qjae4_2_4.pdf

Suze Orman Councils Clients on the Perfect Time to Steal $70K

2. Bureaucratic Management or Profit Management of Banking?

Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment

13. The Traffic-Manager Analogy

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