The Free Market 28, no. 1 (January 2010) Climate-change policy ought to be privatized. All government policy instruments, including taxes, subsidies, regulation, and emissions trading to mitigate climate change ought to be abolished. Instead, property rights to a climate unchanged by human activity should be protected by tort litigation on the
The Free Market 28, no. 2 (February 2010) The Mises Institute is pleased to announce the multimedia content on Mises.org— thousands of hours of audio and video—is now available through iTunes U , a dedicated section within the iTunes Store ( www.itunes.com ). iTunes U carries lectures from top academic minds on every topic, freely available,
The Free Market 28, no. 3 (March 2010) The recent improvement of the global economy, with particularly high economic- growth numbers for the United States, is just one more deception in a long series of deceptions that have plagued policy makers and investors. While official statistics register a rising gross domestic product, the long-term
The Free Market 28, no. (July 2010) When the first Austrian Scholars Conference was held in 1992, we were at the very beginning of the Great Bubble Economy, brought to you by Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke and their associates at the Fed. This shiny, bubbly “new economy” has finally gone the way of all bubble economies in history, deflating
The Free Market 28, no. 5 (May 2010) This Libertas Award acceptance speech was delivered at the XXIII Forum da Liberdade, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on April 12, 2010. Mises was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century, a resolute and uncompromising champion of freedom. Fifty years ago, Mises came to South America and delivered
The Free Market 28, no. (June 2010) A common argument advanced in support of greater government intervention in the American healthcare market is that a large and growing fraction of the gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on healthcare, while the results, such as average life expectancy, do not compare favorably to the Western nations that
The Free Market 28, no. 7 (July 2010) Many people are rightly concerned about economic conditions, which are far more grim than the official statistics suggest. Young people out of college are facing a stagnant job market. Businesses have rethought expansion plans. Retrenchment continues to be the watchword in nearly every area of commercial
The Free Market 28, no. 8 (August 2010) It is a common assumption in today’s world that capitalism is, at best, out of control and, at worst, outright evil. Everyone knows that it causes most of our financial, economic, and social problems, and that we need a referee—the government— to make sure that all is fair and that we innocent citizens are
The Free Market 28, no. 10 (July 2010) USA Today offered a roundup of how the great recession has affected American life. The trends are gleaned from US Census data, which provide a look at how economic downturns can devastate a society, and offer a glimpse into a theme that the Austrian tradition has long emphasized. Economics isn’t just about
The Free Market 28, no.11 (July 2010) During the academic year that encompassed the fall term of 1964 and the spring term of 1965, I was a freshman in college. I was also in my first year of intercollegiate debate, after four years of interscholastic debate in high school. I’m sure debate has evolved in many ways in the last half-century, and I
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