Free Markets

Food companies should be able to put whatever they want on the labels of their products.

Sweden is turning to markets and private payer insurance for answers to their state-run health care.

The Tea Party showed in 2010 how formerly apolitical people could become dedicated activists.

The NY Times, like its columnist, Paul Krugman, is upset at the Mises Institute. Why might that be? Because we’re making so much progress with the young against Keynesianism, the warfare state, and other evils.

A good story, told through a novel, play, or film is more likely to affect one’s views of economics and human nature than is any well-footnoted and didactic tome.

The current tenancy laws do not promote conflict resolution and peaceful cooperation, as laws are intended to do. Under the current regulatory system, a landlord has minimal to no benefits from providing high quality service, quite the opposite of what good laws are supposed to do.

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.
 

If we seek to eliminate or regulate insider trading, we have only to allow free competition among stock markets and eliminate legal barriers to entry. Companies would choose what stock market to list with depending upon the behavior and rules of each. Consumers always win when there is competition.

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Bob Murphy talks about a course he is teaching entitled “Introduction to the Free Market” (http://acad

A low wage constitutes a competitive advantage for less-skilled workers that serves to protect them from competition from more-skilled workers. In other words, a wage of $7.25 per hour for fast-food workers serves to protect those workers from competition from workers able to earn $8 to $15 per hour in other lines of work.