Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Secession Is Inevitable. War to Prevent It Is Optional

The answer lies not in doubling down on political unity, maintained through endless violence or threats of violence. Rather, the answer lies in peaceful separation.

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Calculation and Socialism

A modern socialist economy is impossible.

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I, Mises University

Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I, Pencil, so it is with Mises University.

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The Theory of Interest

Time is central to economic coordination and prosperity.

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Rethinking Sociology with Mises: A New Austro-Libertarian Framework for Understanding Society

Is Austrian Economics compatible with modern sociology, which is presently dominated by collectivists? However, it is possible to apply praxeology to sociology analysis, and that is where one begins to approach this discipline in a manner that promotes liberty.

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Rethinking Sociology with Mises

Is Austrian economics compatible with modern sociology, which is presently dominated by collectivists? In fact, it is possible to apply praxeology to sociology analysis, and that is where one begins to approach this discipline in a manner that promotes liberty.

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Minimum Wage

The minimum wage is harmful, racist, sexist, and completely unnecessary.

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The Silent Guardian of Liberty: Hans F. Sennholz and the Seed of Mises in America

The biography of Hans F. Sennholz reads like a paradoxical novel—as if the protagonist had journeyed backward through the twentieth century.

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The Silent Guardian of Liberty: Hans F. Sennholz and the Seed of Mises in America

The biography of Hans F. Sennholz reads like a paradoxical novel—as if the protagonist had journeyed backward through the twentieth century.

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Competition and Monopoly

Competition is a relentless, dynamic process of entrepreneurship and discovery.

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The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle

Paul Cwik explains how artificial credit expansion triggers unsustainable booms and inevitable busts.

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Selling the Public Lands

Some in Congress are floating the idea of selling government land -- especially in the West -- as a way to pay down federal debt and free more land for housing. While this might seem like a free market "solution," we should remember that the government is a rapacious monopoly.

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Selling the Public Lands

Some in Congress are floating the idea of selling government land—especially in the West—as a way to pay down federal debt and free more land for housing. While this might seem like a free market “solution,” we should remember that the government is a rapacious monopoly.

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Economists: Central Bank Digital Currency Should Not Exist in the US

President Donald Trump signed a law on Friday to create a regulatory framework for dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies, known as stablecoins. NTD's Don Ma discusses with Steve Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and Christian Briggs, CEO of Hard Asset Management.

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Subjective Value and Market Prices

Price theory is the cornerstone of the foundation of economic calculation.

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Praxeology

Praxeology is the science of human action.

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The Birth of the Austrian School

Professor Salerno traces the birth of the Austrian School to Carl Menger’s revolutionary insight.

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The Questionable Role of Quantitative Methods in Economics

Austrian economics veers sharply from the economic mainstream over the use of mathematics and quantitative measures. Instead, Austrians build upon irrefutable premises based upon human action.

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The Questionable Role of Quantitative Methods in Economics

Austrian economics veers sharply from the economic mainstream over the use of mathematics and quantitative measures. Instead, Austrians build upon irrefutable premises based upon human action.

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Banking

David Howden reveals how banking, especially fractional reserves and central bank manipulations, creates instability and inflation.

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