Mises Wire

Keynes on Eugenics, Race, and Population Control

World History

Blog11/14/2019

Keynes's Malthusianism indicates that he had a defective understanding of the division of labor and the law of returns. Beyond that, his population policies reveal the totalitarianism inherent in the Keynesian vision.

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Kamala Harris and the Cult of the Presidency

U.S. History

Blog09/23/2019

Kamala Harris has promised to rule by decree if elected president. For her, Congress is little more than an advisory committee. The average voter, of course, ranks even lower than that.

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Keynesian Economists Ignore Say's Law. We're Paying the Price.

World HistoryOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog09/03/2019

By advocating an increased monetary role for the state, Keynes has made the credit cycle considerably worse and more destabilising.

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Kenya’s Fishing Crisis Reminds Us of the Benefits of Free Trade

Protectionism and Free Trade

Blog04/23/2019

Thanks to trade with the Chinese, more Africans have access to safe food they would otherwise lack.

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Krugman Needs a Lesson on Why Truckers Are Paid Less Now than in the 1970s

Labor and WagesValue and Exchange

Blog04/18/2019

Truckers are paid less now than in the 1970s because government regulators once tightly controlled competition, thus driving up the cost of living for everyone else.

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Keynes and the Versailles Treaty's Infamous "Article 231"

Blog04/05/2019

Historians have neglected the role of John Maynard Keynes in writing some of the worst provisions of the Versailles treaty — which sowed the seeds of World War II.

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Karl Marx and the Great Socialist Revival

Big GovernmentSocialism

Blog01/10/2019

As decades pass since the fall of the USSR, romanticism is replacing the bitter facts of the lives people in communist regimes were forced to live

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Kirk Kerkorian: Misesian Entrepreneur

The EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship

Blog10/26/2018

Kerkorian was an eighth-grade dropout who would go on to earn billions, and epitomized Mises's idea of the entrepreneur.

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