Mises Wire

Daniella Bassi

Animal control officers are supposed to, well, control animals in a municipal area. But thanks to animal control policies, it's the stray animals that are in control of our author’s town.

Connor O'Keeffe

While these students are right to oppose the horrific Israeli attacks on Gaza, many of the protests reflect leftist groupthink and typical higher education collectivism.

Phil Duffy

Although mainstream economists hold that Adam Smith is the father of modern economics, it was Richard Cantillon that recognized the centrality of entrepreneurship in economic development. 

Wanjiru Njoya

The enemies of individual liberty are numerous, from leftists who see freedom as interfering with the “positive freedoms” offered by the state to conservatives that believe too much freedom destroys community relationships. 

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Apply now: The thirty-eighth annual Mises University, where I have lectured for more than thirty of those years, will be held from July 28th to August 3rd.

Mustafa Ekin Turan

Like the Biden administration, the European Union elites are seeking to crush free speech on the Internet in the name of preventing “hate speech” and “disinformation.” Of course, the EU ruling classes won’t have to worry about being censored.

Octavio Bermudez

In 1959, Ludwig von Mises gave lectures on economics in Argentina, where the economy was in steep decline. In the 1920s, Argentina was one of the world's wealthiest countries, but decades of Peronism and inflation started the country on the long road to poverty.

Daniel Lacalle

Central Bank's control of interest rates cripples economic growth. Yet central banks will not give up power because it is central to financing huge government deficits. 

Per Bylund

The attempt by the mainstream economics profession to create economic literacy has turned into a movement to promote economic illiteracy.