Modern socialists claim that Hitler's Nazi regime was the antithesis of socialism. Hitler would have disagreed, as he saw himself and his movement as being primarily socialist. Original Article: "The Competing Ideologies for the Collectivist Mind" This Audio Mises Wire is generously

Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil wrote an essay in 2001, "The Law of Accelerating Returns," that describes an exponential path to what for many is an unimaginable future. How certain is the exponential he describes? "We would have to repeal capitalism

When the term “evangelical” is tossed into the modern public square, it usually is accompanied by words like “Trump,” “January 6,” “right-wing,” “Christian nationalist,” “racist,” and the like. Like others who have spent their entire lives in the American evangelical

Most economists see GDP as a snapshot of the performance of the economy. However, it is better understood as a misleading statistic which fails to accurately describe what really is happening economically. Original Article: "GDP Provides a False Reading of the State of

Lest anyone underestimate the brutality of state control, the way governments have handled the covid-19 pandemic demonstrates the authorities have not yet hit bottom. Original Article: "Covid-19 and the Continuing Erosion of Private Property Rights" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by

The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is an important investment model that describes how investors expect to be compensated for the time value of money and risk. The more risk you take, the more you want to be compensated. The formula is

The traditional approaches to the structure and management of firms are becoming barriers to customer value. The Austrian capital theory approach recognizes that all value in the corporation flows to it from the value experiences of customers. Therefore traditional organization

An essay by Hans-Hermann Hoppe explains that for Robinson Crusoe, an isolated castaway, "the question concerning rules of orderly human conduct," of social cooperation, "simply not arise," but when "Friday, arrives on the island," Crusoe, for the first time, must

Mussolini became premier in October 1922. With the innumerable arguments about the march on Rome or with the story of the violent, lawless, and outrageous tactics he used to come to power we are not concerned here. That history has

Libertarians have a reputation for denigrating traditional American institutions. They deride the Superbowl as "sportsball," sneer at mass-market entertainment as "bread and circuses." It goes deeper than that. As Mises Institute president Jeff Deist says: While libertarians enthusiastically embrace markets, they have