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Airport Congestion — A Case of Market Failure?
Ever since its founding in October 1982, the Ludwig von Mises Institute has received many requests for introductory courses in Austrian economics for students and adults.
The Free Market - Special Issue
Our country is beset by a large number of economic myths that distort public thinking on important problems and lead us to accept unsound and dangerous government policies. Here are ten of the most dangerous of these myths and an analysis of what is wrong with them.
Is Japanese Trade Policy Really “Unfair”?
Bashing the Japanese has become a popular American, if not international, sport. The objective is to fabricate "facts" and use them to demonstrate how Japan's international trade policies create economic disruption that warrants retaliation.
The Underground Economy
There is a bustling and shadowy world where jobs, services, and business transactions are conducted by word of mouth and paid for in cash to avoid scrutiny by government officials. It is called the “underground economy,” which is as old as...
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Ten Great Economic Myths
Our country is beset by a large number of economic myths that distort public thinking on important problems and lead us to accept unsound and dangerous government policies. Here are ten of the most dangerous of these myths and an analysis of what is wrong with them.
How Do We Know
The master educator of liberty reflects on learning, and other forms of self-improvement. In the title essay, Leonard Read writes, “Everyone who pursues an improved understanding of how freedom works its wonders makes a contribution to a higher...
The Case for Free Trade
Free and extensive trade, unsubsidized, between the peoples of the Earth lowers tensions and makes us all better off It is, morally and economically, the only proper policy.
Seeds of Progress
The mass of citizens who haven’t the slightest idea of what makes an economy fruitful or unfruitful, perform trillions of little things that result in an abundance of goods and services beneficial to millions of others whom they have no...
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Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
This might be Mises’s best-selling book. It is a very clear explanation of the basics of economic policy: private property, free trade, exchange, prices, interest, money and inflation, socialism, fascism, investment, and much more. As Mises...
