The Week in Review: February 6, 2016
This week’s Iowa caucuses mean that election season has officially begun. While the names may change, the spectacle every four years represents the triumph of compulsion over cooperation.
Free Markets
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3 Reasons for Hope
Watch Lew Rockwell's talk from last weekend's Mises Circle in Houston.
The Truth About Politics
Politics operates according to principles that would horrify us if we observed them in our private lives, and would get us arrested if we lived by them. The state can steal and call it taxation, kill and call it war.
Panel Discussion: Where Are We Headed in 2016?
A guest panel featuring Daniel McAdams, Larry Beane, Sandra Klein, Andrew Widener, and Bill Haynes.
The Great Deformation
David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. In The Great Deformation, Stockman describes how...
The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom
Alcohol abuse and heavy tobacco use are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. It seems rather ludicrous to advocate the outlawing of drugs and not the outlawing of alcohol and tobacco. (p. 11) Vance writes from a viewpoint...
It Didn’t Have to Be This Way
Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the recent economic meltdown--or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities? Mainstream economics has no adequate answers...
Capitalism
George Reisman was a student of Mises’s, a translator of his work, and, as he demonstrates in this outstanding treatise, a leading theorist in the Misesian tradition. This exposition deals with the method and theory of economics, and...
The Free Market and Its Enemies
This is a “new” book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer...
