The Scandinavian Model Won’t Work in Chile
Scandinavian welfare states continue to allure leftist onlookers across the world. The Nordic welfare model is marketed as a humane alternative to the cutthroat nature of Western capitalism. It received …
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Why Economists Are So Often Accused of Being Indifferent to Social Problems
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that …
Seattle’s CHAZ: Homesteaders or Illegal Squatters?
Who has the best claim to government property? Narrated by Daniella Bassi. Original Article: “Seattle’s CHAZ: Homesteaders or Illegal Squatters?“. Mises WireThe Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research …
Mises and the Lockean Proviso
Unlike Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises did not believe in natural rights. But he can be of immense help to many of us who accept the right of self-ownership and …
Rothbard’s Rules
When an economic crisis hits, everybody from the Fed chairman to the man on the street knows that the Fed must print more money and reduce interest rates and that …
Bastiat Leads the Way on the Morality of Forced Lockdowns
On May 11, in defiance of a government lockdown order, Elon Musk reopened Tesla’s car plant in Fremont, California, which elicited a negative reaction from Noah Feldman, professor of law at …
What If We Didn’t Have Police at All?
As a thought experiment, try to imagine what people would do if there were no public police forces (as was the case in most places for much of the nineteenth …
The Flexner Report and Our Modern Medical Cartel
Although we’ve been given a brief respite from COVID-19 pandemic news, it’s likely that the killer of over one hundred thousand so far in America will leap back to the …
The Flexner Report and Our Modern Medical Cartel
Although we’ve been given a brief respite from COVID-19 pandemic news, it’s likely that the killer of over one hundred thousand so far in America will leap back to the …
Economic Collapse Has Turned Many Europeans against the EU
Since the beginning of the year, the corona crisis has monopolized news coverage to the extent that a lot of very important stories and developments either went underreported or were …