Mises Wire

Eric Coffie

The brutal rejection of capitalism in favor of socialism by African politicians at independence was largely due to a deep-seated misconception that equates capitalism to colonialism.

José Niño

The current pandemic environment has opened up new approaches to schooling such as co-ops, learning pods, and unschooling. 

Ryan McMaken

A repeated pattern of close elections accompanied by threats of violence (or actual violence) is a sign that something is wrong with a nation's political system.

Ludwig von Mises

Fighting erroneous socialist doctrines is not a special interest of a single class but the cause of all; everyone would suffer under the limitation of production and of progress entailed by socialism.

Gary Galles

Probably no other belief is now so much a threat to liberty…as the one that democracy, by itself alone, guarantees liberty.

Bradley Thomas

Economic realities mean the socialist state would need to utilize the same method of discounting wages as capitalists do. The only difference is that under socialism, bureaucrats would do the "exploitation."

Joakim Book

Bizarrely, people from Paul Krugman to Tyler Cowen seems to think that libertarians rule the world and that everything that has gone wrong is libertarians’ fault.

The Editors

In this timely series, several Mises Institute scholars and writers come together to discuss the themes running through the 2020 election race and the most important policy issues for the American presidency.

James Ketler

The new "right to repair" measure on the ballot in Massachusetts has very little to do with rights, and a lot to do with new costly and bureaucratic mandates on automakers. 

Robert P. Murphy

Kenneth Arrow showed in 1951 that the entire project of social choice theory rested on quicksand.