Mises Wire

David Gordon covers new books in economics, politics, philosophy, and law for The Mises Review, the quarterly review of literature in the

Back in the boom, Sin City’s population grew by nearly 200 each day.

It’s a fascinating list put together by Econ

The law of comparative advantage shows us that people can consume more than they would be able to produce on their own.

Can two people still gain from trade even if one person is a lot better at something than the other person?

The demand for building permits and the other related “services” that can only be purchased at city hall in Las Vegas has plummeted.

...disaster recovery remains an important area for research.

For a Forbes symposium on job creation, I’ve proposed that we

A small set of ideas does most of the heavy lifting in economics.

Today is a historic day in Austrian economics. Today a Ph.D.-level seminar in Austrian economics commences at the University of Missouri.