“Thank you!” to the generous supporters, below, who donated to our Fall Campaign. The best people in the world support the Mises Institute. Will you join them ? The goal of our Fall Campaign is simple—to increase our Membership and our influence. Please take time to donate TODAY . Saturday, October 3 Mr. Kelly Bean Mr. Chris Becraft Viera Bibr
Faculty, Associated Scholars, and More Mises Institute Senior Fellow Hans-Hermann Hoppe received the Roland Baader Award at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, Austria, at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the publication of Mises’s Human Action . Patrick Newman received the George F. Koether Free-Market Writing Award for his work editing
Mises.org In the first quarter of 2020, mises.org had over 4 million unique pageviews, an increase of 26 percent from fourth quarter 2019. With 108,782 pageviews, March 31 was the highest-traffic day for the website in over four years. The Spanish traffic to mises.org/es continues to grow with 365,691 unique pageviews in the first quarter, up 342
Mises University In July, students from around the US came to Auburn for our annual Mises University program. Students learned from a distinguished faculty on-site, coupled with online contributions from Dr. Walter Block and Steven Berger. This year’s Mises U faculty included: Joseph Salerno Thomas DiLorenzo Jeff
No Ron Paul supporter will ever forget, or cease being angry about, the theft of his Texas Congressional seat in 1976. The race seemed to be close, and it was. When the polls closed, he was 100 votes ahead. The next morning he was 300 votes behind, and declared the loser. But some of those votes were from dead people. So Ron and his campaign
2020 was a daunting year. Covid-19, crazed government lockdowns, riots in major US cities, and a bruising, divisive national election made all of us sick with worry. Politics, as usual, made things worse. Congress and the Fed went crazy with “stimulus.” Debt and deficits soared. Millions of Americans lost their jobs, saw businesses shuttered, and
Mises University is happening now! Not a watered-down online version, but a full-fledged Mises Institute live event. Students from around the country are on our beautiful campus and are devouring the lectures we offer. Our students are among the best and brightest. Their willingness to read serious books and engage in deep, difficult thought sets
Two new issues of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics are now available online. Vol. 22, no. 4 features an article by Dr. Mark Thornton on an unpublished note from the early 1960s by Murray Rothbard on the economics of antebellum slavery . Other highlights include a response by Dr. Joseph Salerno to Dr. Karl-Friedrich Israel on the wealth
It is in a time of crisis where the leviathan state has the greatest opportunity to grow. The global coronavirus pandemic has given cover to governments around the world to give into totalitarian instincts and implement authoritarian policies against their people. It is in times like this when an uncompromising defense of liberty and markets is
We received a new donation from Mr. Carl Watner entitled The Voluntaryist Collection. The highlight of the donation includes the six-volume set: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner . Within the collection is a series of personal inscriptions that Mr. Watner collected at libertarian conferences over the years, including by Murray Rothbard,
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