Jerry Kirkpatrick

Articles

08/15/2008 Mises Daily Jerry Kirkpatrick

The concept of core curriculum is a product of education czars who think they know what is best for everyone.

“It’s Just Being Turned into a Business...”

11/26/2007 Mises Wire Jerry Kirkpatrick

This lament is often heard today about medicine and education, among other fields. Business, however, is the last thing medicine and education have been turned into. Bureaus of the government would be...

As Southern California Burns

10/23/2007 Mises Wire Jerry Kirkpatrick

Four years after the conflagration of 2003, we in southern California once again are enjoying the sight of pink skies not caused by the sun, the aroma of burning chaparral, and the sting of smoke...

Publications

In Defense of Advertising

05/31/1994 Jerry Kirkpatrick

In Defense of Advertising is a theoretical defense based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the economics of Ludwig von Mises. It argues that the proper foundations of advertising are reason, ethical egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism. Its theme is

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.