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Articles

Mark Thornton Discusses Gold, Silver, and Recessions

05/22/2025 Power & Market Mises Institute

In this video , Senior Fellow Mark Thornton ‪ discusses the economic implications of the historically high gold-silver ratio, suggesting it may signal an impending recession. He explains that central...

Coming May 15-17: 9th Austrian Economics Meeting Europe

05/06/2025 Power & Market Mises Institute

Coming May 15-17 in Toruń, Poland, the 9th Austrian Economics Meeting Europe features keynote lectures from Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Mateusz Machaj, and Tate Fegley. This is an academic conference...

Scholar Spotlight—Jason Jewell

04/25/2025 The Misesian Mises Institute

The Misesian : Dr. Jewell, what was your introduction to Austrian economics and the Mises Institute? Jason Jewell: The presidential election of 2000 was a key moment for me. I was living in...

Publications

Songs of the Mises-Kreis (Complete Collection)

08/18/2010 Mises Institute

Here is the book that allows you to sing like Mises and the gang, with all verses for the songs we’ve been able to reconstruct, and complete piano accompaniments. From 1920 until 1934, Ludwig von Mises conducted a fortnightly private seminar in his

Austrian Family Album

09/02/1998 Mises Institute

The story of the Austrian School begins in the fifteenth century, when the followers of Thomas Aquinas, writing and teaching at the University of Salamanca in Spain, sought to explain the full range of human action and social organization. This album

Media

Playing with Fire: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve

10/03/2024 Mises Institute

The Mises Institute’s new documentary provides a look at how the Federal Reserve uses its expanding power to damage our economy, increase inequality, and to impoverish ordinary Americans.

Playing with Fire: Official Trailer

07/01/2024 Mises Institute

We have a unique opening to strike at the root of the most pressing issue facing Americans: the forces making us poorer and stealing away our future.

Watch Our Latest Fed Documentary Teaser

06/19/2024 Mises Institute

For decades, the most powerful institutions, from academia to the corporate press, have made a concerted effort to marginalize the wisdom of Austrian economics. Their control is breaking.

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.