It has been often said that our future rests with the next generation. If that is true, then it is a scary prospect. The millennial generation (ages 18-34) increasingly sees itself, politically, as socialist. I personally know a couple of young men who declare themselves Marxists! Although that is frightening enough, remember the context in which
This article published in the Monthly Review, March 2005 , meaning this year, not a century ago: “The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism; socialism, that is, as the socialist movement always meant it to be: revolutionary, democratic, egalitatarian, environmental, necessitating mass
The Huntsville Times was prompted by Bill Gates’s good comments on education to interview others on the topic, and I was among them. Note the person quoted at the end of the piece, who suggests that the solution to the public school problem is for the government to get the kids earlier (age 3) and teach them longer. The story: Virtual classroom is
Jacques Chirac seems to be on the verge of waging all out war against the gravest possible threat to his country: ultra-liberalism (hint: that’s what Misesians favor). He has announced that ultra-liberalism is the “communism of our time” because it poses a threat the Euro social model in which politicians and bureacrats run people’s lives. Good
Here is an interesting table comparing 9 schools of economic thought. You can certainly quibble with some of the content, but it makes for a good “cheat sheet” for a history of economic thought class or a lecture on schools of economics. Interestingly, the Austrian school is the “middle of the road” of the table. The “Developmentalist” school
Bob Tollison died unexpectedly today at the age of 74. While many readers of mises.org may not be familiar with him, he was one of the most inventive, prolific, and impactful scholars of our generation. As the current leader of the public choice school his wide-ranging contributions certainly qualify him as a Potential Nobel prize winning
Se ha dicho a menudo que nuestro futuro se encuentra en la próxima generación. Si es verdad, es una perspectiva terrorífica. La generación milenial (18-34 años) cada vez se ve más a sí misma, políticamente, como socialista. ¡Conozco personalmente una pareja de hombres jóvenes que se declaran marxistas! Aunque eso es suficientemente atemorizador,
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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.