Philosophy and Methodology

Utopians are not satisfied with imposing DEI on humans. They also want the state to treat animals as “oppressed” minorities with positive rights. 

How a person uses the right to associate (and to not associate) is a matter of individual choice profoundly influenced by the cultural context.

As the progressive Left expands its occupation of our institutions, the concept of truth itself becomes little more than a weapon to utilize to achieve political goals.

In this issue of the Misesian we celebrate seventy-five years of Human Action. Many of our top scholars examine the legacy of Human Action and find it continues to inspire new generations of economists, scholars, and students.

While F.A. Hayek saw human ignorance as the basis for what he called spontaneous order, Ludwig von Mises saw human reason as the basis for praxeology.

In this issue of the Misesian we celebrate seventy-five years of Human Action. As you will see in the next pages, many of our top scholars examine the legacy of Human Action and find it continues to inspire new generations of economists, scholars, and students.

The decolonization movement seeks to destroy both economics and science, all in the name of social justice. In the end, however, what they get is not justice and certainly not order, but rather chaos, and deadly chaos at that.

The concept of human rights has been corrupted by socialists and welfarists. That is why we need to look to thinkers like Murray Rothbard and others who laid out theories based upon natural rights and property rights.

The decolonization movement seeks to destroy both economics and science, all in the name of social justice. In the end, however, what they get is not justice and certainly not order, but rather chaos, and deadly chaos at that.

Mainstream economists insist that data alone can explain economic events, permitting them to test economic theories. In truth, without sound theory, data is meaningless.