Bureaucracy and Regulation

Presented at Mises University 2019.

After many decades of rent control and other regulations, New York politicians still can't seem to figure out why housing is so expensive.

In response to tight housing markets, the Berlin government has decided to make things worse through price controls and new regulations on housing construction.

Being held accountabile in the real world usually means making reparations for incompetence or malice. But this sort of accountability almost never applies to governments.

Government policy encourages homeless people to congregate in public areas twice over: first, cities destroy access to very-low-cost housing. Second, city governments often refuse to enforce their own rules of public-space use. Tent cities result.

The Canadian government wants to force doctors to assist patients with euthanasia. But doctors should be free to refuse service to anyone, and refusal doesn't mean doctors are "blocking access" to healthcare or anything else.

Elon Musk uses corporate welfare and "public-private partnerships" to create the false impression he is an actual entrepreneur.

Presented in 1990, Joseph Sobran cautions against all foreign aid, calls for an end to entangling alliances, and suggests that America's most important export is Misesian economics.

Presented in 1990, Rothbard explains that Mises and the Austrians forecasted the collapse of socialism, and points to the tremendous opportunity that exists for a social experiment in freedom.

Presented in 1990, Kęstutis Baltramatis speaks of Lithuania's plan to completely privatize industry and dramatically cut the size of the public sector.