Education

On my recent trip to the Oxford Union debate in the UK I had the good fortune to be able to attend a lecture by Ben Powell at the Adam Smith Instit

Many Christians call for legislation to regulate, control, and ban activities that they deem as social vices, writes Bryan Cheang.

Economists today have sold themselves to the enemy. To succeed they have to toe the line, and they don’t bite the hand that feeds them.

The most hard-working and intelligent people tend to go to college, but it’s not the college degree that makes them successful.

Whether it’s “pure” socialism or the so-called mixed economy, the historical record is clear that government intervention makes us poorer.
 

Once I understood the fundamental choice was between laissez-faire and statism, it was clear: there was no “third way.”

The demand for online educational programs illustrates how useful they are in the marketplace, and the Mises Institute is already part of this new world of higher education. We seek to become the private online university of the future for Austrian economics, libertarianism, and related areas.
 

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.