Mises Wire

Homicide trends in America are driven by deeply entrenched historical and cultural factors that extend far beyond the prevalence of gun ownership.

In addition to having no obligation to intervene to protect the public, government law-enforcement agencies are protected by many layers of formal immunity which allow them to both abuse their power and neglect their duties without any significant repercussions to themselves or to budgets.

Competition and cooperation and not two things in conflict. They are both essential ingredients in a society based on voluntary action instead of violence.

Africa has plenty of hard workers and plenty of natural resources. But private property is not secure there, which means few are willing to invest their capital there.

Readers will close the volume with admiration for Kirzner’s devotion to Austrian economics, immense learning, and dialectical skill

The experience with which the sciences of human action have to deal is always an experience of complex phenomena. No laboratory experiments can be performed with regard to human action.

The best EU is an EU in which free and sovereign nation-states voluntarily come together to cooperate.

Italian fascism and German national socialism were committed to abolishing private property in practice, if not in name.

Environmental activists in US politics are making it quite clear that their goal is nothing short of a socialist economic revolution.

The trade deficit has increased since President Trump took office, consumer prices are rising, and American industries are losing their competitiveness on the world stage.