Mises Wire

The current free-for-all in Division I NCAA sports is not the product of a free market, but rather is chaos being imposed by the courts and government agencies. 

Domestic opposition to a government’s war is almost always seen as seditious—even if the criticisms are right. Whether it was war pursued by Abraham Lincoln or our modern wars of aggression, the attacks on the war critics are always the same.

Does a recession loom in our future? Given the irresponsibility of the government’s economic policies, the short answer has to be “yes.”

As AI continues to grow, we are told to fear private transactions and to depend on the state for safety and security. The reality is that we need to fear the state and what it will do to us as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.

As Hayek noted, civilizations do not arise from political decrees, nor are they the simple product of culture. The costs of transacting exchanges also play an important role.

As economic uncertainty grows, the authorities turn to their only “solution”: increase sovereign debt and ratchet up inflation.

A modern myth is that the more government taxes and spends, the more “equality” it brings. Brazil is proving that is not the case.

Murray Rothbard, like other Austrian economists, believed that the heavy use of mathematics in economic analysis damaged economic understanding instead of enhancing it. This wasn’t science, he said; it was “scientism.”

This key decision of the Continental Congress matters because the way a war is fought affects the outcomes; the choice to fight like a state means either losing or winning like a state.

The editors of this important new philosophy book are young Polish professors and researchers who remember the horrors of Soviet communism and are fully inoculated against anticapitalism.