Remembering Bill Peterson
We hear from Roy Cordato that our old friend Bill Peterson passed away today at age 91. Bill was a student of Ludwig von Mises, having attended
Mises Wire
Human Rights as Property Rights
“Liberals generally wish to preserve the concept of ‘rights’ for such ‘human’ rights as freedom of speech, while deny
Undone by Opportunity Costs
Yesterday morning my wife and I were planning to celebrate our wedding anniversary with dinner at an upscale restaurant. We had been to the r
The Economist and Errant Doctrines
“The economist must deal with doctrines, and not with men. It is for him to critique errant doctrine; it is not his charge to uncover t
Is Subjective Economics “Bourgeois Economics”?
“Marxism makes use of the same method with regard to modern subjective economics. Unable to oppose it by a single word of reasonable cr
Economics is Abstract Reasoning
“Economics, like logic and mathematics, is a display of abstract reasoning. Economics can never be experimental and empirical. Th
