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The UK’s Monstrous Equality Act
Great Britain’s “Equality Act” is not simply a civil rights bill gone too far. It is, as Murray Rothbard would have put it, a “monstrous” piece of legislation…
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Why Is the Healthcare System Broken?
Charles Sauer profiles four healthcare entrepreneurs who built functioning free-market alternatives to the broken hospital system before turning to Washington…
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Poland: For Now It’s Still a Paper Tiger
Since abandoning socialism 30 years ago, Poland’s economy has grown, as one would expect with a market economy. However, there could be more economic freedom…
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An Austrian Perspective on Lolcows
Lolcows, part of the world of internet personalities, would seem well beyond the world of economic analysis. Yet, much of what happens can be explained by the…
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The Rise of State-Controlled Medical Care
Timothy Terrell traces the historical origins of the American healthcare cartel, beginning with Ronald Hamowy's 1979 article documenting how the AMA used state…
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Private Property, Public Purpose
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty. No matter whether it…
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Carl Menger, Crown Prince Rudolf, and the Marginal Revolution That Never Was
Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, served as the tutor for Austrian-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph…
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The Nationalization of Credit?
The essay added later to the collection: a critique of proposals to nationalize banking and credit, weighing bureaucratic against profit management and warning…
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Theory of Price Controls
Mises’s focused analysis of price controls: why fixing prices produces shortages and demands for still more controls, and what that reveals for the theory of…
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Anti-Marxism
How German “anti-Marxism,” including national (anti-Marxian) socialism, absorbed the very Marxian ideas it claimed to oppose, with Werner Sombart as the case…
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Social Liberalism
A critique of the German “Socialists of the Chair” and their social policy—by way of the Methodenstreit, the clash of control versus economic law, and Max…
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Does the Free Market Naturally Lead to Price Deflation?
Bob uses U.S. economic history, centering on the greenback era, to work through some subtle but important distinctions in Austrian monetary theory. He also…
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The Hampered Market Economy
Mises examines the doctrine of a “hampered” or regulated market as a distinct third system and answers Schmalenbach’s thesis that free enterprise was giving…
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Interventionism
The central essay: interventionism as a supposed economic system, the real nature of intervention, and how price ceilings, minimum wages, and similar measures…
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Preface
Mises’s 1929 preface, written in Vienna for the original German edition, presenting the essays as a sustained critique of interventionism, then the reigning…
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Introduction
Hans F. Sennholz, the translator, lays out Mises’s target—the belief in a “third system” of a hampered market economy standing between capitalism and…
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Foreword
Margit von Mises introduces the collection, recalling that these essays date from the 1920s and noting that the final essay was added to the later German…
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Get Out of Fiat Currency: The Monetary Reset Warning
Dr. Mark Thornton warns that the monetary system may be moving toward greater digital control, persistent inflation, and a potential monetary reset. They…
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The Dupes of War: Mises on Statism, Propaganda, and Foreign Conflict
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton examines the “dupes of war”—citizens trained by government, schools, and historians to accept false…
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Praxeology within a Physics of the Social Sciences
Austrian economics does not share the same methodology as we see in the economics mainstream. The Austrian emphasis on praxeology provides a better explanation…
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Three Myths of American Healthcare
Ryan McMaken dismantles three persistent myths of American healthcare before tracing the origins of social insurance to Bismarck's deliberate scheme to bind…
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The Depression of 1784: Revolutionary Inflation and Post-Revolution Depression
Intervention begets intervention. This was the case following the American Revolution, as the consequences of inflation, credit expansion, and wartime…
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How Adam Smith Helped Create Modern Unionism
While Adam Smith is celebrated in some circles as the “Father of Free-Market Economics” (Austrians would disagree), his writings on the “disadvantages” of the…
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Cronyism and Regulatory Capture
As AI becomes a more important and visible part of our lives, the movement to regulate it also grows. The standard regulation narratives—that government…
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Justice Thomas's Rothbardian Phase and the Hamiltonian Vance
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the recent SCOTUS decisions as well as JD Vance's recent praise for the economic views of…
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Fireworks for the Regime: What July 4th Actually Celebrates
Every July 4th, politicians climb podiums, flags wave, a hundred million dollars’ worth of fireworks scatter across the sky, and somewhere between the hot dogs…
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Is This Country Having Its Socialist Moment?
Democratic socialist candidates are becoming a serious political challenge in Democratic Party primaries. Have Americans suddenly become convinced by the…
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The Senate Isn’t His Oyster, After All. Graham Platner’s Socialist Vessel Turned Out to Be Leaky
The media tells us that the rape allegations that brought down Graham Platner’s Senate campaign just came to light. Actually, the media had those allegations…
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The War System
"The main aim of American foreign policy is to impose the will of our ruling elite on the rest of the world." Original article…
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Foreign Investments and the Spirit of Capitalism
How the Industrial Revolution and foreign investment made some nations rich while others stayed poor, closing with Mises’s defense of capitalism—not because…
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Profit and Loss, Private Property, and the Achievements of Capitalism
The crucial difference between physical “capital goods” and “capital” as an accounting concept, and how profit and loss, private property, and economic…
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Money, Interest, and the Business Cycle
The two great confusions about money and interest, from Aristotle’s “money cannot beget money” to modern credit expansion, and how monetary manipulation by…
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The Making of Modern Civilization: Savings, Investment, and Economic Calculation
The first economics lecture: how saving, capital goods, and investment build modern prosperity—illustrated by the fisherman who forgoes today’s catch to make…
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Marxism and the Manipulation of Man
Why Marxism spread so widely while going long unchallenged, how its slogans slipped into everyday speech, and the Marxian urge to “organize” society by…
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Nationalism, Socialism, and Violent Revolution
How Marxism claims that truth itself is attainable only in a classless society, and how the cult of “action” and violence—by way of Georges Sorel and French…
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Individualism and the Industrial Revolution
The liberal ideal of the individual and rational, welfare-serving law, and a defense of the Industrial Revolution against the myth that early capitalism…
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Class Conflict and Revolutionary Socialism
Marx’s doctrine of class and class conflict: the claim that class interests determine how people think and set the classes in irreconcilable conflict—with…
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Mind, Materialism, and the Fate of Man
Mises opens the philosophical half of the course by arguing that Marx’s materialism—the claim that a person’s economic class shapes his very ideas and…
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Introduction to Marxism Unmasked
Richard M. Ebeling recalls the world of 1952, when socialism seemed ascendant everywhere, summarizes Marx’s system of historical materialism and class…
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Appendix 2: On the Term “Liberalism”
Mises defends his use of the word: true liberalism is defined by private ownership of the means of production, and he explains why he keeps the name despite…
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Appendix 1: On the Literature of Liberalism
Mises's guided reading list of the essential works of liberal thought, from Hume, Smith, and Bentham onward, for readers who want to study the tradition in…
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Chapter 5: The Future of Liberalism
Mises argues that modern civilization rests on liberalism and capitalism, and can be destroyed only from within—by the spread of antiliberal ideas, not by any…
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Chapter 4: Liberalism and the Political Parties
Why liberalism differs from interest-based parties, the crisis of parliamentary government, and the misleading charge that liberalism is merely the “party of…
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Chapter 3: Liberal Foreign Policy
Liberalism applied to world affairs: national self-determination, free trade and freedom of movement as the foundations of peace, and critiques of nationalism…
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Chapter 2: Liberal Economic Policy
The economic case for private property and the free market, including the impracticability of socialism, the failures of interventionism, and the problems of…
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Chapter 1: The Foundations of Liberal Policy
The first principles of liberal politics—private property, freedom, peace, and equality before the law—with a critique of the doctrine of force, fascism, and…
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Introduction
Mises defines liberalism as a program for material welfare grounded in reason, ties it to capitalism, and examines the psychological roots of antiliberal…
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Preface to the English-Language Edition
Ludwig von Mises’s preface to the English edition: what classical liberalism is, why its program rests on private property, and how “liberal” came to mean…
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Foreword to Liberalism
Tom Woods frames Ludwig von Mises's book around a single question—when the state may legitimately initiate force—and the classical liberal’s insistence on a…
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The Economics and Ethics of Interest Rates
Guido Hülsmann examines the interest rate through both economic analysis and moral theology—tracing the debate from Aristotle through Aquinas and Heinrich…
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Why Rothbard Sided with the American Revolutionaries
Contrary to a common—and incorrect—critique of Rothbard, he was not a fanciful purist who refused to support any political movement that failed to be perfectly…
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Greenspan's Legacy: Did the Fed Cause the Housing Bubble?
In the wake of Alan Greenspan's recent passing, Bob revisits two contested claims about his legacy: did the Fed under Greenspan fuel the housing bubble, and…
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Three Bust Signals Are Flashing Red | Mark Thornton
Dr. Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, explains why soaring stock markets, persistent inflation, and a widening wealth gap point to growing…
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Consolidating Federal Power under the Civil Rights Act 1957
Most readers are familiar with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They are less familiar with the 1957 Civil Rights Act. Original article…
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Don't Confuse the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution
Some people seem to think the Constitution of 1787 is pretty much the same thing as the Declaration of Independence. They're wrong. Original article…
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No Paine, No Declaration
In celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we remember names like Jefferson and Washington. Unfortunately, the man probably most…
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The Vine That Ate the South: Government Solutions vs. Market Solutions
Mark Thornton delays part three of his series on American government in favor of something lighter for the 250th: the story of kudzu, the vine that ate the…
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It’s the Fourth of July! Why Am I Sad?
The US “celebrates” its 250th birthday today, but not everyone is celebrating. We bring back a classic from 10 years ago that is even more relevant today…
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America's Libertarian Revolution
In the deepest sense, the American Revolution was a conscious majority revolution on behalf of libertarianism and against power. Original article…
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What Independence Day Really Means
In this episode of the Radio Rothbard, we look at Murray Rothbard's monumental history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty. In this work, Rothbard…