Free Markets

The answer to why people continue to work in such deplorable conditions is pretty simple: they don’t have any other options.

Could there be firms without corporate law? The answer is obvious: firms exist and are an important part of modern markets today just as they existed and provided a vital function before the advent of modern legal systems.

Recorded at Mises University 2018.

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The Market for Security

The Economics of Data Privacy

The Case for Privatization — of Everything

The Economics of War

Sweatshops

Minimum Wage

Monetary Policy and Inequality

The Myths of Market Failure