Mises Search

Welcome to our search page.

As you use the search throughout the site, there are a few things to keep in mind:

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
Publication
Author: Richard J. Maybury
Online Publish Date:
Category: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks, World History
It’s true that economic theory is a subject for adults — you don’t want to assign  Human Action  to an 11-year old — but kids can be taught plenty too. They don’t need details about epistemology or exchange rates. But by enticing them into the subject matter of money and how it gains and loses value, you plant important seeds for future study.
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Mises Daily
Author: Richard J. Maybury
Online Publish Date:
Category: Other Schools of Thought, Political Theory, Production Theory, Free Markets, U.S. History
Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Free Market
Author: Richard J. Maybury
Online Publish Date:
Category: Free Markets, U.S. History
The Free Market 3, no. 11 (November 1986)   Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really
A Tribute to the Statue of Ellis Island
Free Market
Author: Richard J. Maybury
Online Publish Date:
Category: Big Government, Legal System
December 31, 1999 Today as we enter the 21st Century we should pay tribute to the Statue of Ellis Island. This grand symbol of our government’s power and majesty was not always so grand. Only twenty years ago the Lady was a broken, corroded heap of copper and iron. Even her name, Liberty Enlightening the World, was outdated, nearly forgotten, and
The Founding Fathers: Smugglers, Tax Evaders, and Traitors
Free Market
Author: Richard J. Maybury
Online Publish Date:
Category: U.S. History
The Free Market 5, no. 7 (July 1987) During patriotic holidays, the news media applaud the Founding Fathers. But rarely does anyone mention some important facts about them: that they were smugglers, tax evaders, and traitors. Not only is this important, it is also praiseworthy; it produced the most advanced civilization ever known. The Revolution
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Mises Wire
Author: Richard J. Maybury
Online Publish Date:
Category: Monopoly and Competition, U.S. History
[ Originally published November 20, 1999. ] Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Mises Daily
Author: Richard J. Maybury
Online Publish Date:
Category: Free Markets, U.S. History
Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and