Judy Thommesen

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Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Free Enterprise

11/26/2025 Mises Wire Judy Thommesen

The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for.

Spanish translation of How To Think about the Economy now available

08/02/2023 Power & Market Judy Thommesen

Centro RBS, a libertarian voice in Mexico promoting sound economics, has published Per Bylund’s book How To Think about the Economy: A Primer into Spanish. They also feature an interview on their...

Axel Leijonhufvud RIP, 1933–2022

05/20/2022 Power & Market Judy Thommesen

It is with a sad heart that we note the passing of Axel Leijonhufvud on May 2. He wasn’t an Austrian (but rather, as a good Swede, a Wicksellian), nor did he like pigeonholes, but he leaves a large...

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Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Free Enterprise

11/27/2025 Judy Thommesen

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.