Big Government

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.

Left alone, the market always allocates resources to the highest bidder i.e., to their most highly valued uses and through this process of investment and reinvestment, capital is accumulated and the marginal productivity of labor increases. Thus when the market remains free, wages and living standards are seen to continually increase as well.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.

The word efficiency as used by government has been demoted from a useful analytical term to little more than another warning to watch your wallet.

A private seminar for graduate students. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

Industrious low-income people often must turn to doing business in the black market to avoid the burdensome costs of government regulations, writes

James Bennett discusses his new book on federal mandates with the Mises Institute.

Insofar as mainstream economics may be said to make moral-philosophical assumptions, it rests overwhelmingly on a consequentialist-utilitarian foun

Industrious low-income people often must turn to doing business in the black market to avoid the burdensome costs of government regulations. The creation of a cashless society would ensure that even these opportunities to make a living will be abolished forever.

For 100 years, the Fed has served to protect the interests of powerful banks through inflationary monetary policy, writes Benjamin Wiegold.