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Capital Goods and the Firm

Foss and Klein argue that the organization of the firm is critical to how entrepreneurial judgment will be manifested at different levels of the firm. The owner-entrepreneur determines the amount of discretion his employees will have.Thus, entrepreneurship is exercised in some way at every level.

America Goes to War

Hostilities in the North Atlantic provided the context — or rather, pretext — for America's participation.

Hegel: The State as God's Will

Armed with Hegelian philosophy, the modern state would take its divinely appointed stand at the height of history and civilization, as God on earth.

30 Years of Bedeviling the Bad Guys

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Mises.org Quotes: Government Can Be Prevented! Repelling States: Evidence from Upland Southeast Asia
The peoples of the vast Southeast Asian region of Zomia were successful in providing incentives against statecraft--that is, they successfully prevented their own appropriation by external states and successfully prevented local state formation--for ... More »

John P. Cochran: QE Infinity as a Hail Mary
U. S. Monetary Policy, during and since the economic slowdown and financial crisis, has been criticized by non-Austrian economists such as John B. Taylor as a mondustrial policy and as a movement from central banking to central planning by John H. Co ... More »

Daniel J. Sanchez: An Exciting New Appointment
The Ludwig von Mises Institute welcomes its new Executive Director, and inaugural Carl Menger Research Fellow, Peter G. Klein! Lew Rockwell announced the appointment at the Manhattan Mises Circle. Click here for audio, or read the transcri ... More »

John P. Cochran: More Evidence on the Impact Regime Worsening on Slow Recovery
Regime Uncertainty and Slow Recovery Robert Higgs at the Beacon again reminds us that “anemic investment recovery evinces, at least in part, the prevailing regime uncertainty brought about by the Fed’s and the Bush and Obama administrations’ massi ... More »

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Economics in One Lesson

Here is a publishing event: the new Mises Institute edition of the classic book that has taught many millions sound economic thinking. It is a hardbound volume, priced very low thanks to special benef... More »

Fiat Money Inflation in France

In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. As John Mackay writes in the foreword, It records ... More »

Economic Controversies

After Murray Rothbard finished his theoretical magnum opus - Man, Economy, and State - he turned his attention away from pure positive theory toward dealing with the opposition to Austrian theory. The... More »

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The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. Recorded 13 March 2010 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno. ( 3/13/2010 )

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