In this issue of The Misesian, we explore the choice we face between the civilizing and liberating effects of private property and the impoverishment of interventionism and socialism. Our Supporters Summit spoke to how economic freedom undergirds civilization itself.
To stay in power, governments have to keep spending money. They need to give money to their friends, to give money to their supporters, to carry out their various projects, and—most expensive of all—to have wars.
Easterly of Eden
David Gordon reviews: Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
by William Easterly
Easterly questions if economic development is really development unless all parties have the right and opportunity to consent voluntarily in their own decisions.
In early November, the Mises Institute traveled to Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where we hosted an event for students featuring a series of talks by our faculty and staff on why Generation Z is fed up with the economic status quo.
Conflicts are not inherent in the operation of an unhampered market economy. There are conflicts between citizens because the government steps in and gives special privileges to some and not to others.
The deflationary processes have greatly benefited households and businesses under the current fiat dollar standard in recent decades, even though their natural operation has been partially and deliberately stifled by the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy.
I’ve lived in various different parts of the world, and because everything on mises.org is free, I was able to continue my learning from everywhere I was. It’s been fantastic.
“Economic Freedom: The Key to Liberty” featured talks on topics ranging from taxes to the Federal Reserve to no-knock raids, our speakers examined the countless ways that governments invent new methods of violating our private property and destroying freedom in the process.
