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Employment Is Not the Key to Economic Growth

Labor and WagesBusiness Cycles

Blog08/11/2017Frank Shostak

Fixing unemployment without addressing the issue of real savings cannot increase the pace of economic growth.

Entrepreneurial Discovery: Who Needs It?

The EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship

Blog08/08/2017Peter G. Klein

Is Israel Kirzner’s explanation of the market process correct and, if so, is it useful?

Even Partial Drug Legalization Goes a Long Way in Protecting Property Rights

Legal SystemThe Police State

Blog07/17/2017Ryan McMaken

The partial legalization of cannabis in Colorado has made it harder for police to justify many searches and seizures that were once routine.

Europe's Unsustainable Welfare State

Taxes and SpendingInterventionism

Blog07/14/2017Daniel Lacalle

The EU average tax burden on workers is 44.9%. The average worker in the EU spends half a year working for the tax man. This is not sustainable.

ESPN and the Bursting of the Sports Bubble

Media and CultureMonopoly and Competition

Blog05/23/2017William L. Anderson

ESPN is losing 10,000 customers per day, and this means big trouble for all of the sports entities that depend upon the big payouts that ESPN provides.

Entrepreneurship’s Split-Personality Problem

The EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship

Blog05/16/2017Per Bylund

Practice and theory are often seen as being distinct and in conflict with each other. But, hands-on entrepreneurs can learn a lot from economic theory.

Economists Are Not Plumbers

Blog05/15/2017Peter G. Klein

The American Economic Review has published Esther Duflo's Richart T. Ely Lecture, "The Economist as Plumber".

ESPN is a Reminder That on the Market, No One Is Too Big to Fail

Free MarketsMedia and Culture

Blog04/27/2017Tho Bishop

If ESPN wants to regain its dominance, it must return to what built it in the first place: giving consumers the sports content they want.

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To Stop the Left, America Needs a Rothbardian Right

Tho Bishop

Thankfully for the American right, there is another alternative to the neoconservatism of William Buckley, the neoliberalism of Milton Friedman, and the paleo-progressivism of Teddy Roosevelt: the libertarian populism of Murray Rothbard.

Money-Supply Growth Hits a New All-Time High in January

Ryan McMaken

In January, money supply growth hit a new all-time high, rising slightly above September 2020's previous high, and remaining well above growth levels that one year ago would have been considered unthinkable.

Public Schools Refuse to Open. Give the Taxpayers Their Money Back

Ryan McMaken

If grocery stores were run like public schools, they'd still be in the midst of an extended covid lockdown. Fortunately, though, we have a (mostly) privatized system, with vouchers for low-income shoppers. A similar system for schools would be a far saner choice than what we have now.

Fighting Totalitarianism: Rothbard versus Monasticism

Michael Rectenwald

To adopt monasticism before the international fascism we face today would amount not only to seceding but also to ceding everything worth saving to the monsters

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Peter G. Klein

Peter G. Klein is Carl Menger Research Fellow of the Mises Institute and W. W. Caruth Chair and Professor of...