35 years ago, I was worried. I was working at a free-market think tank at a university, and I could see that Austrian economics was becoming less and less influential. Who would speak for untrammeled freedom and capitalism? Sound money and no central banking? Would economics entirely betray its great advocates of liberty from Menger to Mises, in
It’s easy to get discouraged in the Age of Obama, a man who can say, in Castro’s Cuba, that there is not much difference between communism and capitalism. And in his warped mind, I guess it’s sort of true, since his program is a mixture. That is, it’s fascist. Combine his corporatism with envy, perpetual war, negative interest rates, the police
America’s universities have been taken over by the Left, but the way they are reacting to the fake covid-19 crisis gives us a chance to reconstitute higher education on sound free market principles. In the name of “diversity,” academic standards have been gutted. Here are some examples. Emily Walton, a sociology professor at Dartmouth , teaches
Hace 35 años, estaba preocupado. Estaba trabajando para un think tank de libre mercado en una universidad y podía ver que la economía austriaca estaba siendo cada vez menos influyente. ¿Quién hablaría a favor de la libertad y el capitalismo sin límites? ¿De moneda fuerte sin banca centralizada? ¿Traicionaría completamente la economía a los grandes
Las universidades de Estados Unidos han sido tomadas por la izquierda, pero la forma en que están reaccionando a la falsa crisis del covid-19 nos da la oportunidad de reconstruir la educación superior sobre sólidos principios de libre mercado. En nombre de la «diversidad», los estándares académicos han sido destruidos. Aquí hay algunos ejemplos.
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.