A company called Moon Publicity is getting attention from blogs and news sites because it promises to let bidders advertise on the face of the Moon through “shadow shaping” technology, using robots to carve lines onto the lunar surface. So when you look up at the night sky, instead of seeing the same old “Man in the Moon” face, you could see the
I listened to this “Freakonomics” podcast on fire safety , and not only does it have nothing to do with economics, it would seem that the people behind it are entirely unfamiliar with the economic way of thinking. The podcast starts by telling us that fire deaths decreased by about 90% over the course of the twentieth century. These days, there
Today the New York Times has a debate among legal scholars considering whether three years of law school, followed by the bar exam, should be required to enter the legal profession. The best contribution is from libertarian George Leef, who argues that we should allow anyone to take the bar exam . As he points out, in the nineteenth and early
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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.