Mises Wire

Joshua Mawhorter argues that slavery persisted largely due to government intervention rather than free-market mechanisms.

What Murray Rothbard used to call the "Old Right" stood for liberty, freedom of speech, and a free economy. Most importantly, they stood for peace, all in contrast to the "liberals" of their day and ours.

Marx built his infamous labor theory of value on the premise that labor itself was a commodity. However, as Mises and other Austrians have noted, Marx failed both at understanding the complexity of labor and subjective value theories.

The Salamanca School is known for important contributions to free-market economics and the Austrian School. The Bolognese jurists also made key contributions. 

When our ruling classes speak of “believing in democracy,” they are speaking of a romantic version of a form of governance that, in real life, is quite different than the sanitized version presented in our media. 

It is understood that Marx's theories stand entirely upon his Labor Theory of Value. If that theory is discredited, so is the scenario that leads to the inevitable triumph of communism. That fact, however, doesn't stop Marx's disciples from employing other fallacies.

The rise of the nuclear family in Western Europe fostered the creation of private and independent “corporations” that limited state power and promoted economic growth. 

The ruling elites of the US are calling for a "return" to "Hamiltonian Statecraft" and to move away from so-called isolationism. However, there has been no time since the end of World War II that the US has been anything but aggressive in its foreign policy.

The US government says that there are no limits on its ability to militarily dominate every corner of the globe. Ryan, Zach, and Tho talk about why that's a lot more expensive than the regime admits. 

Politicians have long claimed that states are like big families, and that political regimes rule in ways similar to how parents raise their families. This is nonsense.