Mises Wire
Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Feb. 16-17, 2018
Grove City College will host the fourteenth annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference, February 16-17, 2018.
Duties Imposed Against Chinese “Dumping” Hurt American Consumers
Democrats and Republicans all need to get over this mercantilist obsession over an imbalance of trade.
The Tuskegee Experiment at 45: Have Public-Health Programs Been Vindicated?
Public health officials have a long history of ignoring basic human rights.
Hayek on Good and Bad Unemployment Policies
One of the obstacles to a successful employment policy is, paradoxically, that it is so easy to reduce unemployment, at least in the short term.
“The People vs...” — Why the State Claims To Be a Victim of Crime
Long ago, governments figured out that more prosecutions for more crimes means more revenue for the state.
The Fed’s Bubblenomics
The Federal Reserve cannot achieve its goals. If it could, the US economy would not have had financial bubbles in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The New York Times and the “Lost Cause” of Bolshevism
According to the New York Times, we should be mourning the passing of the Soviet era and all of its promises of a better life for all.
Cradles of Capitalism: the City-States of Greece and Italy
Ancient and Renaissance city-states were some of the greatest incubators of economic and entrepreneurial activity.
Don’t Mix Politics and Climate Science
Poor societies cannot afford to care about the environment.