AOC and Paul Krugman are wrong: we can’t just pay people money to stay home and expect “stuff” to materialize around us. This show explains why—as we cover Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State Chapter 5, “ Production: The Structure ,” with our great friend Dr. Shawn Ritenour from Grove City College. Don’t miss a great discussion of that critical
It’s been almost 100 years since Mises literally wrote the book on socialism. His arguments against central economic planning, still acutely relevant today, have never been refuted—in theory or dismal practice. Joining the Human Action Podcast to discuss this monumental book is Dr. Shawn Ritenour , professor of economics at Grove City College and
The Free Market 15, no. 7 (July 1997) The 5th Street Theater in Seattle, Washington, is one of a dwindling number of houses of its kind. It receives no government money whatsoever. Its revenues come from a permanent endowment and ticket sales to its popular, if small-scale shows. Its charter prevents it from raising money from other private
The Free Market 15, no. 11 (November 1997) Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency presume to protect us from all sorts of supposed evils. But in doing so, no bureaucrats, save the tax collectors, are more vicious in their trampling of property rights. For example, they have made life miserable for people who own auto salvage and parts
The Free Market 16, no. 6 (June 1998) Around the country, sports entrepreneurs have been responding to a perceived social problem by doing what they do best: efficiently serving customers. The advent of the work-out craze led to the blossoming of a prospering health-club industry. Along with growth, however, came certain problems, some of which
The seeds of my new book, Foundations of Economics: A Christian View , were sown at the Ludwig von Mises Institute back in the winter of 1999, which was definitely not the winter of our discontent. A year earlier, I had been interviewed by the school newspaper at the university where I had landed my first job out of graduate school. After the
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.