Why Decentralized Economic Planning Is So Important
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault shows how listening to the local experts outside the central bureaucracy is an essential part of economic planning.
Bureaucracy and Regulation
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Seattle’s Minimum Wage Supporters Ignore the Facts
Early data showed the Seattle minimum wage experiment is hurting those its supposed to help. So, the city fudged the data.
The Never-Ending Woes of a Government “Enterprise”
Ignoring the historic failures of government enterprises, mainstream opinion still recoils in horror at the idea of private-sector mass transit.
To Fix Healthcare, We Need to Repeal a Lot More than Obamacare
The focus on Obamacare as the source of all our health-care woes has distracted us from the real foundations of the healthcare mess.
Immunity for Prosecutors Encourages Fraud
Prosecutorial immunity provides an incentive to government prosecutors to engage in fraud if it's good for their careers.
Net Neutrality Strengthens Monopolies, Invites Corruption
Government regulation has long been an easy way for large firms to drive the smaller competition out of business. Net neutrality is no different.
The Medical Marijuana Racket
Some freedom is better than no freedom, but the lengths to which governments will go to regulate legal marijuana is amazing.
Mises U 2024
Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics.
Mises U 2023
Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics.
