Mises Wire author Jovana Diković has just released a new book on rural economic development titled T he Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-socialist rural development in Serbia.
Author Glenn Ellmers has written a book that asks how Americans can be united, and he uses Abraham Lincoln as his example. Not surprisingly, he paints Lincoln in hagiographic terms. David Gordon exposes Ellmer‘s errors and sets the record straight.
Thomas A. Berry The Supreme Court has heard two cases in the last week that implicate weighty First Amendment questions. On Friday, the justices heard arguments in TikTok v. Garland, a challenge to a law that could force TikTok to shut down in just three days. And
Neal McCluskey Last year at about this time, I reported something alarming: 2023 had set a record for values and identity-based conflicts—culture war—in public schools, according to Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map. Today, I report good news: 2024 saw a 42 percent reduction in conflicts. Are we
Marxism is seen by American and European intellectuals as being a sophisticated and legitimate set of theories that explains social problems in capitalist societies. Yet, the entire edifice of Marxism from “class conflict” to the Labor Theory of Value is nonsense.
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett
The challenge facing economic science is to counter the states and governments that smother voluntary cooperation and free human interaction.
This contradicts months of claims from Jerome Powell who has insisted that price inflation was rapidly returning to the Fed's two-percent price inflation goal.
