Mises Institute
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Politicians love to claim that the robust economies in the Nordic countries are due to “socialism.” Yet, the region’s prosperity is the product of moves to market economies before socialist parties gained power. Yet, even today, the famed Nordic welfare programs don’t cancel out the benefits ([link removed]) of relatively free economies.
Chances are you thought about Ebenezer Scrooge at some point this Christmas season. Edward Fuller today shows ([link removed]) how Scrooge’s creator, Dickens, makes Scrooge look like a saint by comparison.
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The Nordic Model Isn’t as Socialist as Democratic Socialists Claim
Jacen Litterst
Scandinavia are often ranked far higher than socialist economies like Venezuela in terms of economic freedom.
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Dickens the Man
Edward W. Fuller
Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and charitable concern for the poor. The true story of his personal life makes this evident.
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Home Prices and Sales Fall. Can Sellers Count on Lower Interest Rates?
With employment fundamentals so weak, the real way to increase home sales is to cut prices further. That, of course, is not what sellers want to hear.
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How the Soviets Replaced Christmas with a Socialist Winter Holiday
Father Frost asks: “To whom do we owe all the good things in our socialist society?,” to which, it is said, the children chorus the reply, “Stalin.”
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What Happened to Climate Change?
Only a couple years ago, climate change was a major political issue. Now it’s strangely absent from public discourse, because it stopped being the most useful way for elites to justify their power grabs.
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The Christmas Truce of World War I
Troops refused to be pawns of empire for one blessed day
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Christmas, Capitalism, and Consumerism
Social critics often tell us that capitalism is contrary to the true meaning of Christmas.
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Woodrow Wilson’s Christmas Grift of 1913
Two days before Christmas 1913, the infamous “creature from Jekyll Island” was born.
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Reading, Teaching, and Quoting Mises
Mark Thornton at the 2024 Human Action Conference in Auburn.
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The Misesian
In the latest issue of The Misesian, we give readers a sense of what happens at Mises University by featuring lectures and photos from the event, as well as testimonials from students.
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