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Rothbard: These Are the Best Libertarian Educators

Education

Blog05/24/2017Joseph T. Salerno

In a 1961 letter to F.A. Harper, Rothbard, listed who he felt were the world's most important libertarian educators.

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Rising Oil Prices Don't Cause Inflation

Prices

Blog05/01/2017Frank Shostak

The core driver of general increases in prices of goods and services is central-bank driven money-supply growth, not the price of oil.

RIP Will Grigg

Blog04/12/2017Jeff Deist

Will Grigg, full name William Norman Grigg, passed away today after a series of hospitalizations.

Rent Control Makes for Good Politics and Bad Economics

The EntrepreneurPolitical Theory

Blog04/10/2017Gary Galles

Politicians see that rent control is an easy way to buy some votes from many voters. Sadly, the policy only ends up hurting renters in the long run.

Remembering Burt Blumert

Blog03/30/2017David Gordon

Today is the eighth anniversary of the death of Burt Blumert, one of Murray Rothbard's closest friends and a key figure supporting the Mises Institute and Lew Rockwell.com.

Raiders Move to Vegas Gives Taxpayers Reason to Boo, Players Reason to Cheer

Taxes and Spending

Blog03/28/2017Tho Bishop

The NFL is coming to Vegas. This means higher hotel taxes for tourists, but lower tax rates for players.

Ryancare is Failing — What Should Happen Next?

Free MarketsHealthU.S. Economy

Blog03/23/2017Tho Bishop

The market is creating its own solutions to Obamacare. The focus should be protecting it from further government control.

Ryancare's Fatal Logical Flaw

Big GovernmentHealth

Blog03/13/2017Hunter Lewis

One cannot both repeal and keep Obamacare.

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Carl Menger and the Sesquicentennial Founding of the Austrian School

Richard M. Ebeling

With his Principles of Economics Carl Menger not only laid the foundation for the Austrian school itself but for its continuing development to this day.

There Is No Such Thing as Treason

Ryan McMaken

Some of the Capitol rioters are apparently guilty of real crimes like assault. Or even attempted murder. But none are guilty of the made-up, imaginary "crime" that is "treason."

Surviving Tech Purges: What We're Doing at the Mises Institute

Jeff Deist

We will never water down our message to satisfy censors or maintain a particular platform; instead we will work around them.

How the State Preserves Itself—and What the State Fears

Murray N. Rothbard

The gravest crimes in the state's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to the state itself: treason, desertion, insurrection, etc. The state does not exist to protect its citizens, but to protect itself.

Covid-19 and the Socialist Calculation Problem

Patrick Barron

Just as central planners cannot know how individuals will value a product or service, so too are central planners unable to calculate or plan for the endless array of risk assessments made by potential victims of covid-19.

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Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Jörg Guido Hülsmann is senior fellow of the Mises Institute where he holds the 2018 Peterson-Luddy Chair and was...