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Daniella Bassi

Senior Editor

Daniella Bassi is senior editor at the Mises Institute. She oversees the editing of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, The Austrian, and the Mises Wire, and she copyedits Mises Institute books. She holds master's degrees in early American history from the University of Vermont and the College of William and Mary and an undergraduate degree in English from Amherst College. She is a strict Rothbardian, and her writings interpret American Indian history and property rights from that perspective.

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Daniella Bassi at Mises University 2023

How to Be a Better Writer

Strategy

07/29/2023Mises Media
A panel featuring members of the Mises Institute editorial staff.
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maya

What Mayan Civilization Can Teach Us about Secession and Decentralization

World History

Blog01/10/2022

Thanks in part to the decentralized nature of Mayan civilization, it was much more difficult for the Spaniards to conquer the Mayas than the Aztecs and Incas.

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Audio Mises Wire

The Inca Empire: An Indigenous Leviathan State

Property RightsTaxes and SpendingWorld History

12/08/2021Mises Media
So oppressive was the Inca regime that it's no wonder the Spaniards found many enemies willing to help topple the empire.
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Machu Picchu

The Inca Empire: An Indigenous Leviathan State

Property RightsTaxes and SpendingWorld History

Blog11/24/2021

So oppressive was the Inca regime that it's no wonder the Spaniards found many enemies willing to help topple the empire.

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Audio Mises Wire

Pre-Columbian America Wasn't Exactly a Paradise of Freedom

U.S. HistoryWorld History

10/18/2021Mises Media
The story of the Americas as the violent “pacifying” and corralling of free indigenous peoples by white outsiders erases the long history of statism in many areas of the New World.
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