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As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from studying group disparities.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/importance-teleology-understanding-economic-inequality

Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-vs-conservatives-american-and-french-revolutions

Mark Thornton opens with an interview from the Rothbard Graduate Seminar on what makes Austrian economics distinct, why the Mises Institute matters, and how Böhm-Bawerk, Mises, and Austrian business cycle theory help students understand prices, capital, interest rates, socialism, skyscrapers, and the K-shaped economy. He emphasizes Austrian economics as a coherent, deductive approach rooted in human action and useful far beyond economics departments.

On Side B, Mark joins VRIC Media and CapitalCosm to discuss the Fed, oil, government debt, Social Security, younger voters, and the future of the dollar. He argues that the Fed’s real priorities are financing government debt and protecting banks and Wall Street.

The transcript of the interview with Recep Kocyigit, "Skyscrapers, Böhm-Bawerk, and the K-Shaped Economy: A Conversation with Dr. Mark Thornton," is available in PDF: https://mises.org/MI_191_PDF

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A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution

This week, Bob talks with Dr. Patrick Newman about his new book, Cronyism: Rise of the Corporatist State, 1849–1929, which reviews how big business built the regulatory state, the Fed, and cartels like the AMA, all justified in the name of the "public interest."

Related:

• Cronyism: Rise of the Corporatist State, 1849–1929: Mises.org/HAP562a
• Bob on the Speaker Panel, Why Is the Healthcare System Broken?: Mises.org/HAP562b

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about the growing populist backlash to Flock cameras and the AI-powered security state. Are these simple private companies fulfilling a market for security, or a simple extension of federal surveillance?  

After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jason-arday-and-dei-system-just-wont-die

The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are acting in good faith.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/flock-camera-backlash-very-good-sign

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/seen-and-unseen-cost-government-grocery-discount

There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/innovation-mirage-why-deepseek-and-kimi-3-do-not-settle-question-chinese-technological-supremacy