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If economics has its Unicorn, it would be the Giffen Good, the good that would seem to defy the Law of Demand. While economists...
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Murray Rothbard famously asked Cui bono? to help unearth government scandals. Kenya’s politicians certainly benefitted from the Eurobond affair.
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Ludwig von Mises had many insights about immigration. As one might expect, he foresaw problems with open borders, but also believed immigration could benefit...
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Record-low consumer confidence and record-strong corporate earnings aren’t a paradox: they’re the Cantillon effect in real time. Mark Thornton explains who inflation rewards, who...
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Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state.
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In memory of Roger Garrison, Bob walks through Garrison’s famous capital-based macroeconomics diagrams, showing how they translate the Mises-Hayek theory of the boom-bust cycle...
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Two interviews, two timelines: before and after the Middle East war. Mark Thornton explains what the conflict means for oil, inflation, and why gold...
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The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.
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Combining binary and triangular interventions, the state coercively taxes citizens to pay for its services, monopolizes certain services, and then is incentivized to engage...
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WSJ: “To broaden access to private markets, we should first restore public markets for small and medium-size companies so that all investors have an...
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Brandan Buck: From Venezuela to Iran, the president thinks he can avoid ‘the forever war trap’ but that i s exactly what we’re going...
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Thanks to massive government intervention, modern capitalism hardly reflects the free market economy built up by entrepreneurs. What matters now in the business world...
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Recordings of the 2026 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 20-21, 2026.
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The 10-year Treasury yield — the benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — added nearly 10 basis points to 4.382%….