Education

Critics of Austrian economics often condemn Mises as dogmatic. In fact he advocated a commonsense method.

Once I got used to the “Wikimedia” markup and developed a workflow, it was very fun and addictive! I invite every Misesian scholar (amateur or otherwise) to help me flesh out these (and other) articles, and to start new ones of your own. Just set up an account and use any of the great resources at the Mises Wiki help page to get started!

Tunisia and Egypt have a massive youth-unemployment problem. Unsurprisingly, they also have a system of "free" college education.

Patent and copyright, to take the two worst manifestations of IP, are nothing but state monopolies that violate property rights. IP is antithetical to capitalism and the free market.

Greenspan was right when he concluded that “the entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance” and is the product of “a gross misrepresentation of history.”

In this small gem of a book Professor Bagus has given us much more than an explanation of why the euro will fail the common man in Europe.

The economy is now a networked economy. Some people even say that in this networked world centralized managerial hierarchies are obsolete; in the future, they will be replaced by decentralized, disaggregated, peer-to-peer communities.

The Lincoln regime destroyed the system of federalism, or states' rights, that was established by the founding fathers. After the war, the union was no longer voluntary, and all states, North and South, became mere appendages of Washington, DC.

More and more journalists and economists are calling for a return to "sound money." Joseph Salerno's new book provides a rigorous examination of what sound money really means.

The principle of sound money consists in affirming the market's ability to choose and maintain money (and the enormous benefits this has provided to society) and also in opposing any government meddling in money.