Mises Wire

The average new home in America was still well over 50 percent larger in 2021 than in the 1960s. Yet in an age of declining affordability, governments won't let homes get smaller. 

This year's trio of Nobel winners in economics are short on actual economics and long on government intervention.

Our current deficit policy amounts to "Give me your wallet, and you will deal with the credit card balance later."

As we watch the once proud edifice of higher education in the USA crumble, we realize that we are looking at institutional failure itself.

The only lesson for the United Kingdom is to remember that if you follow Greece’s economic policies, you get Greek debt, unemployment, and growth.

Academic historians of the "acclaimed" new history of capitalism have a major weakness: their claims do not match the historical record.

Entrepreneurs serve consumers by creating our future. They do this by trying ideas for new, imagined goods and paying wages to workers and developing new capital. 

We must do the hard work of writing good history which tells true stories about markets, the modern state, decentralization, and the tyranny of government health officials.

College faculties historically have leaned left-of-center, but today, a rigid progressive ideology is enforced not only by faculty, but also by higher education administrations.

The European electricity market is probably the most state-regulated in the world. More intervention is not going to solve the problems created by politics.