From Ancient Rome through modern-day America, money inflation has been the means by which the state extracts wealth without recourse to taxation.
Such a monetary policy leads to gutting savings, punishing investment, and the launching of economic
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The New Deal began before John Maynard Keynes propagated his theories. But the state was pleased to have a scientific gloss for its looting, inflating, and controlling ways. The question then and the question now is: does
Every government-based stimulus that has ever been tried has failed. This one is no different except that the failure might end up even more catastrophic. This one-day event features some of the best economic minds currently writing on the issue of
FDR followed up on Hoover’s attempted inflation by closing the banks and plotting an unprecedented inflation that ended in the paper money we use today. So strong was the faith in inflation that his administration even mandated turning in all gold to
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Imagine a team of doctors who think more poison is the solution to poisoning. That’s precisely how government has managed the economic downturn. The market is trying to correct the distortions, even as government makes
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Imagine a team of doctors who think more poison is that solution to poisoning. That’s precisely how government has managed the economic downturn. The market is trying to correct the distortions, even as government piles
Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis
How many times has Washington proclaimed that inflation has been conquered, only to have it return when and where we least expect it? Inflation remains today the great enemy of individual economic planning. This has both
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There is a way out of the present crisis: end the government’s money monopoly. For reasons of history and bad economics, it is usually assumed that government must have sole control over the nation’s money, and
The Mises Circle goes to Seattle to address contemporary issues in liberty, and the role of capitalism as the main force for every form of progress in our age. We live amidst its fruits—technology, culture, philanthropy, human well being—and have yet
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The economy seems headed for recession, if we aren’t already in one. Policy makers are ready with long lists of bad ideas (inflate the money supply, spend more, regulate business, protect industries against competition)
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Whoever has power abuses it. It seems that ideology works only as a cover, such that the right is as likely as the left to fasten control over our lives and property, if only in different ways and with different excuses.
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Imperialism takes many forms, and is driven by many motivations, but its result has this in common with all forms of state interventions: it fails to achieve the overt aims of its proponents and it
The Mises Circle meets in New York City for a working lunch at the University Club: One West 54th Street, New York, New York.
Mises Institute Members and guests, Faculty, and Students are invited.
In the entire debate on American foreign and economic
Join the Mises Circle in Southern California, a “working lunch” on Saturday, May 6, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at Scott’s Restaurant (see map) in Costa Mesa, California. This special event is being sponsored by Louis E. Carabini.
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The Austrian Scholars Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, and for scholars interested or working in this intellectual tradition, it is the event of the year.
Over the course of three full days, the
Join the Mises Circle for its inaugural meeting, a “working lunch” on Saturday, March 4, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant in Houston, Texas. This special event is being sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.
Ron Paul
Whenever the fascists came to power in Europe, they banned the work of the Austrian economists. The reason: the Austrians wrote as vehemently against “right-wing” central planning as against old-fashioned left-wing socialism. While many are alert to
Come deepen your knowledge of the Austrian School, or discover it for the first time at the 20th annual Mises University.
AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS
Rooted in the tradition of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, as well as Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek, the
The Latin root of radicalism is radix for “root,” and in this week-long Steve Berger Seminar, the roots and reach of both libertarian and Austrian theory are covered by a leading authority: Professor Walter Block of Loyola University, New Orleans
SUMMER WORKSHOP 2005
Wednesdays, 2:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Robert Murphy, Hillsdale College
- The Microeconomics of Security Services
- June 5th
Joseph Salerno, Pace University
- Austrian School of Economics: Revisionist History and Contemporary Theory
- June
