Jenny Joy Schumann

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Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work

02/06/2026 Mises Wire Jenny Joy Schumann

Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.

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Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work

02/06/2026 Jenny Joy Schumann

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.