Man, Economy, and Sexual Harassment
New government regulations designed to end sexual harassment would only raise the legal risk of hiring women, and encourage employers to hire more men.
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A Message from Jeff Deist
The Mises Institute doesn’t have billionaire donors. We don’t take government money. We don’t accept grants with strings attached. We have you!
Wedding Cakes Have Nothing to Do With Free Speech
It’s his business. It’s his private property. He has just as much right to discriminate here as he does with his home.
Capitalism and Asymmetric Information
It's capitalism and the competitive market that generate solutions to the knowledge problems of the society, including “informational asymmetry.”
Get Government out of the Welfare Business
Private charity is more effective than government welfare because private persons contributing their own money are incentivized to identify real needs.
In Europe, Exploited Regional Populations Are Growing Restless
Since 2008, we’ve been living in lean times, and the longer people go on without a true recovery, the more resentful they’re going to be.
Stop Telling Me to “Shop Locally”
Small mom-and-pop shops are overrated — but they're getting better thanks to competition from firms like Amazon.
The Law School Boom and Bust
Cheap debt has created a bubble in law schools where students take on loads of debt for not-very-useful law degrees.
More on Interest Rates and Time Preference
Currently observed negative yields on some European corporate bonds supposedly runs contrary to the positive time preference theory. How can this be?
Inside the Mind of Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton's new book is a cautionary tale of how not even stacks of cash and a compliant media could save a hated candidate.
