Mises Institute

Thinking clearly about the state requires us to think differently than what is typically believed. The state is not a "necessary evil," but rather it is just evil.

Mainstream economics is obsessed with “maximizing” so-called utility functions and discovering the ubiquitous “social utility curve.” In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes apart this “utility” fixation.

Any political figure, celebrity, professor, social or climate activist, or anyone else who calls for elimination of inhibition of this system—and the spillovers it brings—cannot claim that he or she is a friend to civilized society.

Even as historians have softened on their outlook on Hoover, they usually still manage to avoid the obvious connection between interventionism and lack of economic recovery.

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Liberalų sąjūdis (Liberals’ Movement) a center-right Lithuanian political party containing free-market

The phenomenon of falling birth rates is due to factors far beyond the mere cost of living, and state-funded benefits for childrearing activities have failed to increase fertility rates.

Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.”

On the John Curley Show, Ryan McMaken presents a practical case for strengthening families by shrinking Leviathan’s reach.

In a world full of scams and rackets, the Trump administration has floated the idea of 50-year mortgages, which Wolf Richter wrote would be, “...the ripoff of

Socialists claim they just want to create a more “just” and “equitable” economic system. In reality, socialism is a political system that uses economic rhetoric.

The modern debt culture—underwritten by the Federal Reserve’s expansionary policies—is not only harms capital development, but it also encourages short time preferences, which diminishes the structure of production.