It’s Called “Recovery”, but Where’s the Beef?
Arguably the best single, currently available measure of the entire public's payoff from economic activity is real disposable income per capita.
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Reassessing the Presidency: Book and Lectures
In 2001, the Mises Institute published Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom, by John V Denson, which examines the role of the US presidency in warmaking, police powers, and a variety of attacks on private property and human rights.
Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Lethal Threat to American History by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Reviewed by David Gordon
Judge Napolitano has given us a comprehensive survey of the dangers to liberty we face today.
U.S. Government Debt Is Now at a Once-Unimaginable Level
Now that the gross federal debt has surpassed $18 billion—six times the amount that troubled us back in 1990—we can clearly answer the two questions posed by the symposium's organizers: yes, a large and growing federal debt does matter; and no, we can do nothing about it.
The Austrian School: The History, The Principles, and How It Got Its Name
In this informative interview, Mark Thornton details how Carl Menger started the Austrian school of economics, and the possible Greek and Roman phi
How Interest Groups Invented the Crosswalk (and Much More)
When interest groups invented the crime of jaywalking.
Why the Government Hasn’t Yet Managed to Destroy the Economy
The government cripples the economy a little more each day, but thanks to the resilience of markets, we've avoided economic destruction. Nevertheless, we're still a lot poorer than we would have been without big government.
How Much Longer Can the U.S. Economy Bear the Burdens?
Ordinary people, and sometimes experts as well, tend to overreact to short-term economic changes.
Juan de Mariana and the Modern American Politics of Money: Salamanca, Cervantes, Jefferson, and the Austrian School
ABSTRACT: Juan de Mariana may have had more direct lines of influence on the contemporary political denunciation of central banking in the United States than previously thought. As the culmination of a series of monetary theorists of the School of Salamanca, Mariana’s genius was his ability to synthesize and articulate a critique of the inflationary monetary policies of the Spanish Habsburgs. Furthermore, the Jesuit scholar linked his economic analysis to his equally scandalous endorsement of regicide. For their part, both the monetary policy concerns and the rebellious animus of the modern libertarian wing of American politics echo Thomas Jefferson’s views during the early Republic. These views also likely owe something to Mariana’s uniquely menacing confrontations with the Habsburgs. And thanks to the Virginian’s lifelong appreciation of Miguel de Cervantes’s great novel Don Quijote, which was itself heavily influenced by Mariana, the fascinating connections between Jefferson’s and Mariana’s politicized understandings of money are even further intertwined.
