Mises Wire Geoffrey Rose published The Strategy of Preventive Medicine in 1992, and thus gave birth to the “Population Health” movement. In this podcast episode, Dr. Michel Accad critically examines Rose’s influential …
Last week, I talked about Hegel’s odd view that freedom consists of service to the state, and an earlier column discussed a problem with the use of behavioral economics to …
In Bob Murphy’s interview of Bryan Caplan, they briefly discussed Bryan’s essay criticizing Austrian economics. At listener request, in this episode, Bob presents a more comprehensive analysis of why he …
[Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays • By Joel Waldfogel • Princeton University Press, 2009 • 186 pages] This little book could have been a great Christmas …
At the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Bob Prince, co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, attracted attention when he suggested in a news interview that the boom and bust …
Tyler Cowen, who is said to be “known as one of the libertarian world’s deepest thinkers,” recently wrote a blog post entitled “What Libertarianism Has Become and Will Become — …
That Americans are in the throes of a crisis in democracy has become a commonplace refrain of late. I have noticed that almost all such commentary treats political democracy, implicitly …
[The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. By Christopher Caldwell Simon & Schuster, 2020, 342 pages.] Christopher Caldwell has written an outstanding book, although it will win him few …
[This article is part of the Understanding Money Mechanics series, by Robert P. Murphy. The series will be published as a book in late 2020.] The ultimate purpose of this …
Conventional wisdom holds that savings is the amount of money left after monetary income was used for consumer outlays. Hence, for a given outlay, an increase in money income implies …