Mises Wire

The 2018 Nobel Prize in economics has gone to Yale&#821

All the sophisticated quantitative methods by themselves can't help us understand the cause-and-effect of what's behind the boom-and-bust cycle.    

No one is discussing Kavanaugh's awful record on the Bill of Rights. Meanwhile, the media is sending a terrible message to women.

The Austrian story fits the facts of the housing boom—and bust—much better than the preferred narrative of Market Monetarists.

Without fundamental reforms towards a market economy, the future of Brazil looks bleak.

Bad ideas succeed in politics because those ideas were taught and pushed in educational and cultural institutions first.

Frederic Tudor solved the problems of transporting large amounts of ice over long distances and introducing the citizens of Calcutta to their first taste of ice cream.

Besides the fun of catching Krugman in his flip-flops, his record shows just how weak the empirical case for Keynesian fiscal policy is.

The Austrian school has always been a very international movement, and the Mises Institute works to uphold that tradition.

Through free trade, decentralization, and a non-interventionist foreign policy, the Swiss created a high level of prosperity based on innovation and creative capitalism.