Government officials talk about more entrepreneurship, but they pick particular firms, industries, or technologies, and give them subsidies and benefits. What entrepreneurs need is secure property rights, the rule of law, and sound money. The best government can do for entrepreneurs is get out of their way.
The “public issues” of today are crucially dependent on an understanding of sound economics. Virtually every major “public” or “social” issue involves proposals for government interference with the market. That’s why it’s crucial for lovers of liberty to understand how a voluntary economic marketplace works, in order to explode the myths and lies of its enemies.
According to this Mises U alum, Mises U experience can be applied to some degree programs:
Many young people want to know what has caused this ongoing economic crisis and many are looking for places to study Austrian free market economics
Competition in education, just as competition in the market place, results in a better experience for consumers.
People during the presidential campaigns spoke of a Ron Paul Revolution. But without a revolution in education, there can be no Revolution.
The free-market solution is open entry and competition and nothing resembling a government monopoly of education.
For students of Austrian Economics in the Spanish-speaking world, Institut
What is anarchism? Free markets cannot exist without the state or the state is the greatest enemy of free markets.
