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Audio recordings of Mises Wire articles, offering contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.
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Domestic Agorism: Eastern Europe’s Example of Libertarianism Without Academic Guidance
3w ago00:09:08Tap to summarizeThe up and down experience with free markets in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain shows that free markets, while undermining the state, do not operate apart from state interference.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/domestic-agorism-eastern-europes-example-libertarianism-without-academic-guidance
Transcribe →How Much Inequality Is There? Depends on How It’s Measured
3w ago00:05:28Tap to summarizeFor many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand neither inequality nor economics.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-much-inequality-there-depends-how-its-measured
Transcribe →The Anti-Slavery Advocates of Disunion
3w ago00:14:43Tap to summarizeThe anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ending it. For them, decentralization and secession were potential solutions not problems in ending slavery.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anti-slavery-advocates-disunion
Transcribe →How Norway Built the World’s Largest Fund and a Thriving Economy to Boot
3w ago00:09:32Tap to summarizeNorway sits on large oil deposits, yet has managed to avoid the “resource curse” that has bedeviled so many nations that have abundant natural resources, but severely mismanage their economies.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-norway-built-worlds-largest-fund-and-thriving-economy-boot
Transcribe →Yes, Democratic Socialists Want Soviet-Style Control of Capital
3w ago00:15:50Tap to summarizeWhile the democratic socialists are claiming to just want a society like they have in Denmark, their real aims are the seizure of all or most private property and especially private capital.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-democratic-socialists-want-soviet-style-control-capital
Transcribe →The Evolution of Politics: From Civic Virtue to Realpolitik
4w ago00:09:47Tap to summarizeWhile people claim they want the "virtuous" state with citizens to match, what we really get is realpolitik, whether we want it or not.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik
Transcribe →The Predatory Logic of the State
4w ago00:12:12Tap to summarizeWhile we speak highly of “rule of law” and the “limited state,” the unfortunate truth is that the modern state is a law unto itself. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/predatory-logic-state
Transcribe →Rothbard’s Definition of Government as Organized Crime: The Microsoft Antitrust Case
4w ago00:14:33Tap to summarizeMurray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime in action.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case
Transcribe →The Vendée: The French War for National Liberation
4w ago00:15:36Tap to summarizeTo deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents of the American revolutionaries embraced imperialism over freedom. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation
Transcribe →The FIFA World Cup: Price Controls on Ticket Prices?
Jul 1500:10:48Tap to summarizeWorld Cup tickets are a hot commodity with prices through the roof. Naturally, governments want to do what governments always do unsuccessfully: levy price controls.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices
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