Mises Wire

Joseph T. Salerno
The dehomogenization debate shows the diversity of views that Austrian economists, old and new, have on issues that lay at the heart of economic theory.
Daniel J. Mitchell
Indians are enormously successful when they emigrate to the United States. Yet Indians in India remain comparatively poor. Why the difference?
Robert A. McKeown
We're now seeing the rise of new AI tech that will be used to justify more government intervention in our lives.
Andrew Moran
Coal Country usually blames government regulations for its decline, but consumers have been choosing other less-expensive products for a long time.
Curtis Williams
No government regulator can ever be sure that the new device or rule they are trying to impose will have a positive effect on safety.
Robert P. Murphy
The U.S. firms that are the direct “losers” of the new solar tariffs have benefited for years from favorable tax treatment.
Ryan McMaken
The 20th-century prohibition movement and its related crusades were often driven by an early version of "toxic masculinity."
Frank Shostak
A large variety of products — and not a large number of market participants — is what matters for competition.
Chris Calton
Modern ideas of political correctness are often real-world applications of Marx’s opposition to people with the "wrong" class consciousness.
Hunter Lewis
The more the state increases its powers over the economy, the more motivated special interests become to take control of the state.