We hear plenty about threats to American democracy: Donald Trump’s a threat, the Republican party is a threat, and any number of other people or political parties are threats. Now it’s ExxonMobil’s purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources. Jeff D. Colgan, a professor of political science and the director of the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown
I remember two books from my adult pre-Rothbardian days: Bonfire of the Vanities , and Liar’s Poker . The first written by the recently departed Tom Wolfe, the second by Michael Lewis, who recalled telling his daughter on the way to interview Mr. Wolfe in 2015, “I want at least one of my children to meet him. I think he’s a big reason it ever
The city of Las Vegas is young, having just celebrated its 100th birthday. An old money aristocracy has not yet taken root. Back east, the JP Morgans and Henry Fords are long gone, leaving bloated corporations and reclusive trust fund babies behind. But, this town’s movers and shakers mix amongst the hoi polloi. If you go to Drai’s for dinner,
It is rare that an economics book makes the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. The masses are more likely to be interested in reading about getting rich quick or flattening their stomachs; not supply, demand and other purposeful human action. But, Steven D, Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have struck publishing gold with their book,
[This article reprinted from the Las Vegas Review Journal with the permission of the author.] One of Mayor Oscar Goodman’s pet projects is to bring a Major League Baseball team to Las Vegas. At a recent breakfast presentation, the mayor promised he would be throwing out the first pitch by the 2008 season. In Goodman’s mind, Las Vegas will never be
Howard Ruff is one of the icons of the investment newsletter business. The Ruff Times is one of the most successful newsletters of all time and his book How to Prosper during the Coming Bad Years sold almost three million copies. He is most famous for recommending the purchase of gold at $120/oz in 1975 and more importantly recommending that
The public’s image of entrepreneurs and businessmen as mean, conniving, miserly, greedy crooks has been shaped from the time of Charles Dickens’s Ebenezer Scrooge to the modern day Michael Douglas character, Gordon Gekko, in the movie Wall Street. This image essentially puts a face to the Marxist class struggle theory. According to the theory,
[ The Mind of The Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales From Evolutionary Economics • By Michael Shermer • Macmillan, 2007 • 308 pages] People seem to do the craziest things when it comes to money. Whether it’s chasing stock-market bubbles or paying good money after bad on a home that’s hopelessly underwater, the idea
“There are a lot of Deadheads in finance,” claims CNBC’s big-government cheerleader and economics reporter Steve Liesman. On the financial network’s website, he relates a story about having “really good seats at a Dead show once, and I was never so recognized because of all the Wall Street guys had all the upfront tickets to the show. They were as
With ten Academy Award nominations, True Grit is positioned to take home plenty of Oscar gold. When told of all the nominations, the Coen brothers, who directed and adapted the screenplay for this remake of the original that starred John Wayne, would only say, “Ten seems like an awful lot. We don’t want to take anyone else’s.” The film has been
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.