The Misesian

In this issue of The Misesian, Patrick Newman explores the many ways that Rothbard remains relevant to current economic and political controversies. And other articles, all of which are in the Rothbardian tradition of advancing the scholarship of freedom and sound economics.

In this issue of The Misesian we look at how the inflationist economy affects Gen Z and we look at what can be done to reclaim an economy based on saving, investing, and looking to the future.

This issue of The Misesian discusses that, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world.

In this issue of The Misesian, we want to give readers a sense of what happens at Mises University by featuring lectures and photos from the event, as well as testimonials from students.

In this issue of The Misesian, we take a look at how states use their fiscal and financial powers to convert the productivity and resources of the private sector into warmaking power for the state’s elites.

So long as the unchecked army of bureaucrats, technocrats, and deep-state operatives is allowed free rein, it will be impossible to make progress in limiting the state’s power over individuals.

The state, born at the dawn of the modern age for the needs of pacification, to protect people, has in reality become, as Rothbard writes in For a New Liberty, “the supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public.”

The success of the American Revolution struck a heavy blow against the mercantilist system. But unfortunately, the wound was not mortal.

Another national election has come and gone. Unfortunately, though, opposition to the status quo is not the same thing as support for peace, freedom, or free markets. 

The American state has relied on the tools of monetary and fiscal stimulus to inflate its way out of every new economic crisis. The core of our out-of-control interventionist economy will not be touched by the election of either Harris or Trump.

In previous centuries there were the defenders of liberty we now call “classical liberals,” “radical liberals,” or “libertarians.” For them, the fight for freedom was synonymous with the fight for peace, opposition to imperialism, colonialism, and standing armies.

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.

In our current age of rampant monetary inflation and price inflation, good economics has become more relevant for ordinary people. Inflation is not some arcane matter of consumer price indices and statistics on the monetary base. Inflation, is simply ruinous on the personal level.

Welcome to the first issue of The Misesian. We’ve decided to rename The Austrian magazine to emphasize how Ludwig von Mises remains at the center of everything that is today called the Austrian School of economics.