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Featured in this issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (Vol. 16, No. 4):

With President Obama’s State of the Union Address and its associated campaign prominently featuring increased minimum wage, tired arguments for rai

Over at Mises Canada I explore the following unfortunate facts concernin

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From Economics in One Lesson By Henry Hazlitt

After last week´s decision by HSBC to halt its policy of not honoring large withdrawal requests by depositors comes news of the Russian bank “My Ba

Mandatory union dues are again at issue.

When Governor Isaac Stevens went around Puget Sound in the mid-1850s making trea

People have a strange habit of ridiculing economics for its assumptions and [benchmark] models of optimality.