Free Markets

Liechtenstein has long been recognized as one of the most free and prosperous countries in the world.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.

Left alone, the market always allocates resources to the highest bidder i.e., to their most highly valued uses and through this process of investment and reinvestment, capital is accumulated and the marginal productivity of labor increases. Thus when the market remains free, wages and living standards are seen to continually increase as well.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

In this interview, Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss discuss new ways to study entrepreneurship.

The fact that opponents of private property rights have managed to frame the debate over health-care mandates as some sort of religious issue is on

War is the health of the state, and thanks to a population enamored of military institutions, states are able to tax and spend with ease.

In his short book The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Ludwig von Mises explains why Piketty's new anti-capitalist tome is popular among a certain class of people.

Murray Rothbard explores Bruno Leoni’s call for a return to the ancient traditions and principles of "judge-made law" as a method of limiting the state and ensuring liberty.