Deepak Lal writes as a convinced advocate of American Empire. But in the course of the book, he undermines his own reasons for defending imperialism and offers a devastating criticism of democratic imperialism and of Woodrow Wilson’s Utopianism.
Many people have said that the collapse of the Soviet Union proved that Mises was correct. New research into the origins of writing, writes Gene Callahan, provides clues that allows us to formulate Mises's argument concerning calculation more precisely.
Day in and day out, for hundreds of years, pawnbrokers have engaged in a perfectly legitimate business, write Glen Tenney.
It is the Mises Institute's great pleasure to introduce Carl Menger's 1871 book Principles of Economics to an online audience.
To be an Austrian has become oddly fashionable in recent days, observes Sean Corrigan, judging from the number of news reports thus describing commentators on economic and financial affairs.
Should we prefer the "open society" or the free society? Is there a conflict between social cooperation and economic competition? There are the essential questions, writes George Reisman, that are driving debate about the future of economic liberty.
How much of the spectrum should be privatized? All of it, writes B.K. Marcus. Even the vast "beachfront property" held by the military? Yes, all of it.
Economists of an Austrian bent just can't take off their analytical spectacles, writes Mark Thornton, even when undertaking simple life activities like driving from here to there.
Chris Westley asks what Shel Silverstein really meant to say with his book The Giving Tree. It is bad economics leading to a dangerous political bent.
Two books have become almost cult classics among the academic left, and both reveal shocking ignorance of the most elementary level of economic logic. Thomas DiLorenzo explains.
