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,
For most people working in private industry, the everyday life of working on a college campus would seem like some sort of alternative Kafkaesque universe. The backstabbing, betrayals, and bureaucratic baloney are so commonplace that scandal and waste are barely newsworthy items. And when it comes higher education follies, the Community College of
Anyone who has spent any time on college campuses knows that most college faculty members are left-leaning and likely vote Democrat, if not Green or Socialist. So when a study recently found 91 percent of the UNLV faculty is liberal, it was not exactly earth-shattering news. Although the study’s finding — that UNLV is slightly more liberal than
Food is vital for survival, yet less than 2 percent of America’s population works in agriculture. That’s a big change from 100 years ago, when over 40 percent of the workforce was toiling away on the farm. If I had been born at the start of the 20th century in Kansas, rather than at the end of the 1950s, no doubt my life would have been spent on
During the first-ever Federal Reserve press conference, Fed chair Ben Bernanke said the number of jobs in America was still 7 million behind the number of people employed when the recession began. When asked whether the Fed could do anything about long-term unemployment, Bernanke said the central bank has been fighting it with an aggressive
Parents probably dream of sending their kid to the University of Chicago. Next to the Ivy League or Stanford, the Chicago school is near the top of the heap. Only 27 percent of applicants are admitted. To be among the roughly 15,000 means prestige and an education to build a lifetime on. The cost for tuition and fees: $39,381. Room and board is
A college degree once looked to be the path to prosperity. In an article for TechCrunch , Sarah Lacy writes, “Like the housing bubble, the education bubble is about security and insurance against the future. Both whisper a seductive promise into the ears of worried Americans: Do this and you will be safe .” But the jobs that made higher education
I should have known Murray Rothbard was something special the first night of class when I noticed a fellow student, James Philbin, following behind Murray as he entered the classroom carrying a stool for Murray to sit on as he lectured. Philbin, like others in the class, knew who Murray was; he was their whole reason for being in the University of
Every year in the springtime the best and brightest high school seniors around the country fill out applications for scholarships funded by individuals or foundations in their local communities. These scholarships more than likely won’t pay for the entire college experience, but every little bit helps. These scholarships serve to help people
[This article originally appeared in Liberty Watch magazine .] Those who worship at the altar of Political Correctness and believe American public schools are doing just a dandy job of educating youth might want to consider the following: China graduated almost 200,000 engineers, 44 percent of the undergraduate degrees, in 1999, according to the
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.