are a major source of American prosperity, and we need ever more of them. Their access to international markets for producer and consumer goods is another reason. Markets around the world are opening by the day. The division of labor is globalized as never before. This too has
new way. The impulse toward freedom — implanted in their hearts — leads them to be open to libertarian ideas, and to be critical of the apparatus of statism into which opinion, even in times of government advance. More important, students need access to and teaching about the classics that would otherwise not be available.
— whether the U.S. government should be waging war on foreign peoples — and it was open to historically revisionist scholarship that demonstrated the evils of the and stay up until 3:00 and 4:00am talking to students about ideas. He was always accessible, laughed easily, and was never foreboding. He learned from everyone around
All of life seems to be a massive inconvenience, from ridiculous rules about store opening and closing hours in Germany to regulations on production and enterprise in management. We can’t claim friends in high places, contacts with powerful people, access to movers and shakers, nor supporters among the mighty and great. We get no
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.