Mises Daily

In the past, smart French students dreamed of attending the ENA, an educational citadel of government planning. No longer.

The most devastating effects of taxation--as with  robbery, burglary, and other forms of
confiscation--are the ones we can't see. 

How did the State come into being? Martin van Creveld's new book provides a new perspective, writes Joseph Stromberg. 

In addition to sobering tales of government malfeasance, a new work by Roberts and Stratton offers us a theory explaining why these abuses occur: review by Robert Murphy 

Man does not operate based on a "utility function," but by making discrete, unpredictable decisions when faced with a choice, writes Gene Callahan.

The habits of empire are a bad fit with U.S. ideals, institutions, and love of liberty: a manifesto by Jon Basil Utley. 

Strange how closely the outlines of Gore's plan track Carter's during the 1970s energy crisis, eschewing market prices for central dictate. 

Pundits and politicians, following innumerable scholars for 150 years, will twist and mangle the text to discern some other meaning from the document besides the obvious one.

Ludwig von Mises wrote that the primary moral and professional obligation of an economist is to tell the truth. 

William Anderson answers an objection to his defense of Microsoft.