Media and Culture

Is the Mafia like a state that uses violence to enforce its agenda? Or is it more like a private business that specializes in the market provision of security? Robert Murphy reviews a book on the topic.

You know why so many men walk around with sloppy hair? We hate haircuts. You have to drive there to get one, which represents decline, because if you know about Figaro from Rossini's "Barber of Seville," the barber came to your home (but then he also pulled out your teeth and passed on furtive notes arranging encounters of various sort, etc.).

Pete Boettke, Chris Coyne and Peter T. Leeson have a new blog: The Austrian Economists.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

I was just having a conversation with a visiting political philosopher from Northern Italy.

The past year has brought to light what so long was concealed under the veil of the German consensus model, writes Frank Vogelgesang.

Walter Block’s recent thread “I blew my chance to be on the payroll with every

Decisively refuted by the facts of economic life, Marxism has been forced to retreat to the one place in the academy where empirical reality seems to carry no weight in an argument: the humanities departments.

In this February 1957 memo, Rothbard sets down some thoughts on the Aristotelian background of marginal utility and Austrian economic theory.