Shakespeare: The Ultimate Market Product
The Bard could have been the greatest literary success to never happen had it not been for early-18th-century booksellers.
Media and Culture
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Ron Paul and Contemporary Economics
Presented by David Gordon at the Mises Circle in New Orleans, 5 November 2011.
The Market Stars in Margin Call
The movie depicts individuals grappling with the unwinding of a bubble and the inevitable fallout that takes place.
Prohibition Through the Eyes of Homer Simpson
Presented to the Young Americans for Liberty. Hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 13 September 2011.
Indie Authors Shaking the Pillars of Publishing
As with the music industry in recent times, people no longer need large firms to get published.
The Entrepreneurship of Glee
It is not the band members — composers and performers — who usually object to being covered and remixed.
Clarence Darrow Puts the State on Trial
You always remember books that change your mind, because these books are so few and far between, writes Doug French.
How Dinosaurs Were Made Extinct
It all began in the late Triassic Period, when the government decided to come to the aid of cold-blooded creatures everywhere. The Body Temperature Stabilization Act subsidized cold-blooded animals at the expense of warm-blooded, eliminating all federal taxes on the former and doubling them on the latter.
Economic Lessons from the Pawn Shop
There are many great shows like these that feature basic economic principles.
Robert Bidinotto and the Objectivist Subculture
Rand's heroes weren't generals or people in law enforcement; they were engineers, inventors, designers — people focused on what they could do with their lives.
