Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Gas prices rising in all 50 states as average nears $5
The national average price for a gallon of gasoline was $4.46 on May 4, up from $4.11 on April 27.
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Freedom candidate Thomas Massie may lose thanks to the over-65 crowd
When broken out by age, Massie has huge leads among voters under age 46. Voters over 66 are against Massie. Older voters consistently favor more war and government spending.
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Marx Was Wrong About the “Necessary” Ruin of Small Landed Property
Karl Marx not only misunderstood value and production, but he also was wrong about large-scale and small-scale property owners.
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New Book: ‘The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years’
Human Action is more than a book about economics broadly construed. It is a guide to civilized social life which elucidates the laws of reality that apply if human persons are to engage in peaceful and prosperous social cooperation under the division of labor.
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The Cost of Money: Coinage, Fiat Power, and the Quiet Corruption of Value
Governments take valuable things like paper and minerals, stamp something on them, and call them money, in the process rendering these things almost worthless. Something is wrong with this picture.
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Progressives and Conservatives Are Wrong About Taxing the Rich
Both progressives and conservatives show a complete unwillingness or inability to distinguish between those who got rich by genuinely creating value by serving others and those who are getting rich by expropriating wealth through force.
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The Hidden Cost of Central Banking: Why Inflation Is Not “Neutral”
Inflation is not neutral, it is a hidden tax, a distortion of entrepreneurial signals, and a corrosive force against social trust.
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The Inconsistencies of John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill is a study in contrasts. He wrote On Liberty, yet many of his ideas and theories promoted anything but liberty.
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Someone Always Knows First
Political power over markets doesn’t just corrupt individuals—it corrupts the price system itself.
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Depopulation Won’t Save Us or the Planet
The recent death of Paul Ehrlich reminds us that his crackpot overpopulation theories still are with us, even as they are being regularly discredited.
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Depopulation Won’t Save Us or the Planet
The recent death of Paul Ehrlich reminds us that his crackpot overpopulation theories still are with us, even as they are being regularly discredited.
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Enhancing Economic Analysis Through Corporate Finance
Corporate finance can help introduce classifications such as the distinction between the assets of a natural person and a legal person, but also by incorporating profitability, liquidity, and solvency variables into economic policy analysis.
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The Influence and Significance of <em>Human Action</em> After 75 Years
For Human Action is more than a book about economics broadly construed. It is a guide to civilized social life which elucidates the laws of reality that apply if human persons are to engage in peaceful and prosperous social cooperation under the division of labor.
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Living Under the Weight of Keynes’s Shadow Wealth
In Graham Moore’s The Wealth of Shadows, John Maynard Keynes is a hero for his monetary manipulations. However, in the real world, the economics of Keynes has brought economic ruin.
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Nations by Consent
Every nation-state boundary was drawn by force. Should we treat them as sacred the same way we treat a house or factory? Rothbard says no, and proposes something more radical.
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Remembering Pre-Chair Kevin Warsh
A central banker has two lives: the first is spent studying neoclassical money supply mechanics; the second begins when they realize the real world doesn’t work that way.
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Nation-States and National Borders
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken looks at Rothbard's essay "Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation State."
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Today’s AIs Show the Marginal Revolution’s Unfinished Business
In 1871, the “discovery” of marginal economic analysis soon took a wrong turn, moving towards quantification, data, and mathematics. It is time to “rediscover” the margin, this time the margin as explained by Carl Menger.
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Is Human Action the Hidden Impact Crater of Modern Economics?
Human Action sold thousands of copies, earned accolades from across the political spectrum, and made zero acknowledged impression on the economics profession. Or did it?
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