Mises Institute — News Tracking and Analysis

You Know How This Happens, Right?

Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood.

From Spoiled Sons of Liberty to Surveillance Leviathan: America’s Six Republics and the Myth of Eternal Union

Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago.

Austrian Capital Theory

When savers cut back and consumption falls, most economists cry recession! Paul Cwik on why an Austrian sees the opposite: an economy quietly retooling for future growth.

Calculation and Socialism

The Theory of Interest

Colonel Doug Macgregor: Sleepwalking into World War III

Colonel Douglas Macgregor holds up a mirror to the West and uses his deep historical knowledge and personal experience of previous conflicts to clearly demonstrate the parallels, the motivations and the dynamics that are still in place and dictate policy to this day.

The Ideology Behind the American Revolution

Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr. Wanjiru Njoya looks into the competing ideological claims that go with analyzing the American Revolution.

Tariffs vs. Free Trade

Price Controls

Rent control's cruelest irony: it makes discrimination cheaper. Joseph Salerno on the long-run effects of price caps that almost no one sees coming.

Competition and Monopoly

The textbook model of perfect competition bans advertising, price cuts, and better products—the very things we mean by competing. Tate Fegley on why the mainstream picture of monopoly is upside down.