Philosophy and Methodology

Study of the past, it is assumed, discloses the shape of things to come. Any attempt to reverse or even to stop a trend is doomed to failure.

The prevailing trend toward what Hilaire Belloc called the servile state will certainly not be reversed if nobody has the courage to attack its underlying dogmas.

The works of Leonard E. Read, who founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, are now online at the Mises Institute.

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The power of creative energies to manifest themselves in the face of man-made obstacles accounts for the progress we observe even when the worst elements in society get on top

Rothbard was the first to fully integrate economic science, moral philosophy, and political theory in a unified theory of liberty.

In the same way, the path to economic recovery is to allow markets to channel specialized resources to their highest-valued uses, not to dump taxpayer funds on whatever firms and industries happen to be ready for them — or politically connected.

Jörg Guido Hülsmann, professor of economics at the University of Angers in France, discusses his recent book, “The Ethics of Money Production

The main error of widespread pessimism is the belief that the destructionist ideas and policies of our age sprang from the proletarians and are a &

To the common sense of these women a program of low prices will make a strong appeal.