Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter

“Before a good can be considered money, it must first serve as a medium of exchange and become so through a market process of production, subjective value, and exchange. This necessarily also provides the basis for money to be a meaningful unit of account and a ‘store of value’ (though the term is not fully appropriate). The Mengerian theory of money, refined by Mises and Rothbard, has been extrapolated more fully elsewhere; however, in brief, it posits that money emerges spontaneously from barter as market participants increasingly prefer more marketable goods as media of exchange, eventually producing a generally-accepted medium of exchange. These goods tended to have certain characteristics—scarcity, divisibility, portability, durability, recognizability, fungibility, high value per weight, etc.” (09/25/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/mainstream-economics-money-medium-exchange-unit-account-and-store-value

Source: The Daily Economy
by Alex Rosado

“Competition, deregulation, and innovation are giving consumers faster internet at lower prices.” (09/25/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/affordable-broadband-is-a-local-victory/

Source: EconLog
by Paul Dragos Aligica

“We are living through a great social transformation comparable to the industrial revolution. What sets it apart is not only its magnitude, but its multidimensional convergence: technological, economic, political, and epistemic shifts unfolding simultaneously and reinforcing one another. This shift places growing strain on inherited political cleavages and ideological frameworks, many forged under very different technological and institutional conditions. Mega-trends such as digitalization, artificial intelligence, platform economies, biotechnology, and the reconfiguration of global networks are not just reshaping production and exchange; they are redefining the conditions under which governance operates. The result is a systemic transformation that penetrates the foundations of contemporary political and economic orders. At the core of this transformation is a radical expansion of the institutional possibility frontier.” (09/25/26)

https://www.econlib.org/econlog/the-constitution-of-liberty-in-the-era-of-ai

Source: Law & Liberty
by Itxu Diaz

“The dialectical battle between traditionalists and lovers of liberty has given us brilliant debates over the past few centuries, but also countless missed opportunities. The battle for freedom must be fought continuously, because whenever it is not being fought, freedom retreats; it is always under threat. We see this often these days. In confronting that threat, beyond the work of the usual figures, it may be useful to reconsider the work of those who called themselves ‘authentic reactionaries’ and who, in reality, also offered fruitful arguments in defense of freedom.” (09/25/26)

https://lawliberty.org/scholia-for-a-free-society/