Marketplace competition is reaching a new high with the era of artificial intelligence—deep machine learning capabilities offered to the entrepreneur as specialized services. AI tools as services spanning the marketplace are popping up at a rate that is seemingly increasing firms’ productivity and competitiveness. However, what implications do offering AI and deep learning as a service have for market operations, buyers, and sellers? When AI services and custom...
Read More »No, Red State Economies Don’t Depend on a “Gravy Train” from Blue States
When Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called (again) for "national divorce" this week, a common retort among her detractors on Twitter was to claim that so-called red states are heavily dependent on so-called blue states to pay for pretty much everything. Reporter Molly Knight claimed, for example, that "Red states get their money for roads and cops and schools from blue states. You cut off that gravy train and you e [sic] got a third world country."...
Read More »The Forgotten Lessons of Government-Enforced Race Relations
Judge Andrew Napolitano looks at the history of government and race relations in our nation's history. It's not a pleasant or uplifting story. Original Article: "The Forgotten Lessons of Government-Enforced Race Relations" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. [embedded content] Tags:...
Read More »Saint Augustine, Proto-Austrian
In a past Mises Wire article, I’ve written about how Saint Thomas Aquinas’s definition of hope correlates incredibly well with what Carl Menger would describe in his definition a good six centuries later. This trend of religious figures like Aquinas and his later followers, the late Spanish scholastics, discovering economic truths despite studying theology, not economics, can be found often throughout the course of history. Tom Woods has explained this by stating:...
Read More »Why MTG Is Right About National Divorce
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss this week's Twitter and media campaign by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene promoting the idea of national divorce. Ryan and Tho read through some of the tweets that the Representative from Georgia made about the practical advantages of a soft secession, as well as comments made by "Very Serious People" deeply offended at the suggestion. Is Marjorie Taylor Greene guilty of unforgivable high...
Read More »Will AI Learn to Become a Better Entrepreneur than You?
While artificial intelligence has its merits, it still cannot perform the job of the Misesian entrepreneur. That is a good thing. Original Article: "Will AI Learn to Become a Better Entrepreneur than You?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter
Read More »Biden versus Bastiat
Whether well-intentioned or otherwise, a “Made in China” ban for construction materials on federally funded infrastructure projects will benefit a chosen political class to the detriment of all else. “This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly . . . We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights.” Frédéric Bastiat’s scathing satire of the absurdity of protectionist policies,...
Read More »Ludwig von Mises’s Monetary Theory in Light of Modern Monetary Thought
Ludwig von Mises's contributions to the development of the technical methods and apparatus of monetary theory continue to be neglected today, despite the fact that Mises succeeded exactly eight decades ago, while barely out of his twenties, in a task that still admittedly defies the best efforts of the most eminent of modern monetary theorists, viz., integrating monetary and value theory. Such a unified and truly "general theory" is necessary to satisfactorily...
Read More »Money versus Monetary Policy
Money is simple. The political program of monetary "policy" is not. Original Article: "Money versus Monetary Policy" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter
Read More »The Power of Woke: How Leftist Ideology Is Undermining Our Society and Economy
“It’s an important part of society whether you like it or not,” lexicologist Tony Thorne, referring to “wokeness,” told The New Yorker’s David Remnick in January. That’s an understatement. Wokeness is poisoning the Western workplace and constraining small and family businesses, midsized banks, and entrepreneurs while enriching powerful corporations and billionaires. It’s eating away at the capitalist ethos and killing the bottom-up modes of economic ordering and...
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