Mises Daily Friday by Ryan McMaken:
J.C. Chandor, writer and director of 2011's Wall Street drama Margin Call tackles economics once again with his new film A Most Violent Year. This time, Chandor explores barriers to entrepreneurship in a world dominated by corrupt government, labor unions, and organized crime.
J.C. Chandor, writer and director of 2011's Wall Street drama Margin Call tackles economics once again with his new film A Most Violent Year. This time, Chandor explores barriers to entrepreneurship in a world dominated by corrupt government, labor unions, and organized crime.
Jeff Deist and Peter G. Klein discuss the "Net Neutrality" scam.
Our daily lives are determined by our choices as individual economic actors.
Our daily lives are determined by our choices as individual economic actors. When governments intervene in our personal economics, they intervene in our personal preferences and choices.
Last year, British entrepreneur Mike Watts made headlines when he opened England’s first private toll road in more than a hundred years. The road has now been closed, but its brief history provides a sad (and all-too-typical) example of how government sabotages entrepreneurs and hurts their customers.
Research is not just the way we add to the body of knowledge left by previous generations, but is also an effective means of engaging and challenging the ideas of mainstream economics.
Where police fail, as at Ferguson and in Detroit, private firms and volunteers have stepped in.
Where police fail, as at Ferguson and in Detroit, private firms and volunteers have stepped in. And yet the state continues to claim that its employed enforcers are a thin blue line between order and chaos.
