“In 1998, Murray Rothbard wrote a great monograph called Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero. I’d like to concentrate today on the third of the qualities, Mises as a hero.”

One of the outcomes of the American Civil War was the movement toward centralization of political power in Washington. The Reconstruction regime imposed upon the former Confederate states following the…

Regulators with the European Union want people to believe that the “dead hand” of government regulation actually enhances competition. The only thing their actions enhance is more government power.

It’s Ludwig von Mises’s 143rd birthday! On the 100th anniversary of his birth (1981), George Reisman penned this tribute honoring Mises’s brilliance, courage, and impact.

Thanks to increasingly broad car-seat laws, a third child often requires the purchase of a larger, more expensive vehicle. At the margins, this has an effect on fertility.

Tad DeHaven Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris released a “policy book” this week, laying out the policies she would pursue in office. It clocks in at eighty-two pages, but approximately…

Colin Grabow Some Americans may be surprised to learn (or perhaps not, given trillion-dollar budget deficits) that a federal law requires the government to pay inflated prices for many of…

When people speak of “old school economics,” they generally mean the application of economic thinking that involves what we might call “common sense.” That would include permitting a price system…

Daniel Raisbeck Venezuela’s 75-year-old president-elect, Edmundo González, fled to Spain on September 8, soon after the Chavista regime issued an arrest warrant against him. González’s exile is the product of…

While F.A. Hayek contributed much to the Austrian School of Economics, he also supported the establishment of the welfare state, believing that it was compatible with the rule of law.…