The Economics of Tipping
Many people think that tipping results from stingy employers not paying a “living wage.” But tipping solves multiple economic problems while making employers more likely to hire untried workers.
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What A Divided Berlin Still Teaches Us Today
Berlin provides us with an example that comes as close to that of a controlled social experiment as one could probably hope to get.
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Joseph Salerno: After QE, Whither the Economy?
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Jeff Peshut of RealForecasts.com gives an insightful analysis of the likely effect of the termination of the Fed's QE programs on TMS, the money supply ag
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Ryan McMaken: The Costa Mesa Mises Circle
Here is a sampling of photos from our great Mises Circle event this past weekend in Southern California. The topic: Society without the State. Ron Paul and Judge Andrew Napolitano were our special guests. Over 300 people attended, plus 50 more in an
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Ryan McMaken: The Case for Optimism
Mises Daily Wednesday by Jeff Deist
The state seems more powerful than ever, but the state is both economically and intellectually unsustainable. We’re already witnessing a breakdown in the state’s legitimacy and power, and we should be optimistic
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Ryan McMaken: An Analysis of the Swiss Gold Initiative
If you read German: Thorsten Polleit has written a rather detailed analysis of the Swiss gold initiative and how it would be implemented if passed.
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In the Mises Store
Ethics of Money Production
This pioneering work, in hardback, by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, professor of economics at the University of Angers in France and the author of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, is the...
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Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (2 volume set)
This is one of Rothbard’s most important scholarly works. In the first volume, Rothbard traces the history of economics from the ancient Greeks to Adam Smith; and in the second volume, he discusses Br...
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Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism
Here is a study of the actual workings of business under national socialism. Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national...
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