This holiday season, there’s a way to give money to the Mises Institute every time you shop on Amazon: Amazon Smile. 

Learn more about Amazon Smile here. 

This link will take you to the Mises Institute’s Smile-supported page where you can sign up if you are not already supporting us through Smile. 

One of today’s most commonly referenced statistics against a free-market healthcare system, is the World Health Organization’s ranking of healthcare systems around the world. It places countries with socialized medicine like France (ranked no. 1) at the top, and ranks the United States as low as no. 37. Largely from this verdict by the WHO, many Americans calling for a healthcare reform want a reform in the direction of socialized medicine.

Mises Daily Weekend by Ray Walter. 

Mises University Alumnus Ray Walter, now a PhD student in physics and mathematics at the University of Arkansas, discusses his work with the Mises Institute and how it has influenced his academic career.

Jeff Deist and Peter St. Onge discuss some of the fundamental questions about money in this electronic age. What do Menger and Mises tell us about the origins of money? What’s the difference between “money” and a “medium of exchange”? Was Hayek right about degrees of “moneyness”?

[To support our many deserving students, like Ray, please click here.]

Mises Institute: What convinced you to apply for Mises U?

One of the unfortunate side effects of the United States’s relatively laissez-faire attitude toward immigration is that some who come to the US for political reasons bring their politics with them and want American taxpayers to fight their old battles for them back in the old country.

The US government has moved toward normalizing relations with Cuba, including opening an embassy in Havana and allowing for some limited trade. The economic basics of the agreement include: