Production Theory
High School Senior’s Questions about IP
I received an impressive inquiry from a high school senior: “I am contacting you to ask if I can interview you for my senior project paper, which i
The Liberty Dollar Question
Every libertarian should support full freedom in money production and use, and a great step toward sound money would be to scrap all laws against a
Word for the day: fungible
Fungible means interchangeable. The word comes into play when (inter alia) earmarked funds end up in a general account.
If the airline industry was socialized, would you still fly?
Not that it is the epitome of free-markets in action, however it arguably still retains some semblance of competition as the firms must satisfy the
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2007
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sve
Attention x-treme geeks of Mises.org
David Veksler has a blog on Mises.com in which he details the technology behind Mises.org/com.
Are the Chinese robbing and invading us?
The new issue of Chronicles contains the usual odd mix of anti-statism and statism blended into a strange brew that recalls the Free Silve
The End of Ford: It Began in the New Deal
You may say it another way: that the intentions of mass production cannot be realized unless management and labor are both free. So long as that freedom existed in the motorcar industry, the cost of an automobile went lower and lower until it became, pound for pound, the cheapest manufactured thing in the world, not the Ford car only but all cars; and automobile labor at the same time was the highest-paid labor of its kind in the world.