[This talk was delivered at the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on January 22, 2011. The audio of this speech is available here .] John Maynard Keynes was born in 1883 and died in 1946. Henry Hazlitt was born in 1894, eleven years after Keynes, and lived much longer, until 1993. Their lives and loyalties are a study in contrast, and mostly of
Socialists want socialism for everyone else, but capitalism for themselves, while capitalists want capitalism for everyone else, but socialism for themselves. Neither Ted Kennedy nor Jane Fonda practices a vow of poverty, nor are they taking any homeless into their mansions, while too many big companies try to short-circuit the market with
[This talk was delivered at the Mises Circle in New York City on September 14, 2012.] The 20th century was the century of total war. Limitations on the scope of war, built up over many centuries, had already begun to break down in the 19th century, but they were altogether obliterated in the 20th. And of course the sheer amount of resources that
This past weekend, 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas and 9 in Dayton, Ohio. There have been a number of other mass shootings in the past two decades or so; the largest was in Las Vegas in 2017, with 58 killed. This is sad, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the real perpetrators of death in America—-the US military. It is been
As we mourn the death of the great anti-war activist Justin Raimondo, one can obtain a better understanding of him by looking at his intellectual pedigree. Here, one figure stands out: the great Austrian economist and libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard. Raimondo for many years worked closely with Rothbard as a libertarian activist. He has
What a great year this has been for the Mises Institute! New books, productive conferences, more students than ever, all to advance the cause of economic freedom in academia and public life. Has it made a difference? Yes! There was a time, some years ago, when one mention of Mises or Rothbard in the popular press or an academic journal caused us
What the heck is going on? A friend asked. When I started the Institute in 1982, Austrian economics was on the defensive, socialism in the ascendency. Over the next several decades, we made real progress, thanks to our donors and scholars. Now the Left is on the march. If we listen to the mainstream media, it’s an unstoppable parade of evil. Not
[ This talk was delivered at the Ron Paul Institute’s Conference on Breaking Washington’s Addiction to War. ] Murray Rothbard was the creator of the modern libertarian movement and a close friend of both Ron Paul and me. His legacy was a great one, and at the Mises Institute I try every day to live up to his hopes for us. One issue was the most
Entendiendo correctamente el libertarismo . Por Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Instituto Mises, 2018. 126 páginas. Introducción de Sean Gabb. El título del maravilloso nuevo libro de Hans Hoppe tiene un doble significado. Necesitamos que el libertarismo sea correcto, para entenderlo correctamente. ¿Cómo podemos hacer esto? Al darnos cuenta de que si queremos
Murray Rothbard fue un genio. Un aspecto de esto fue su escritura como un historiador estadounidense. Era un académico tan importante como economista y filósofo. Por ejemplo, está su impresionante historia de cuatro volúmenes de los primeros días de los Estados Unidos, desde Jamestown hasta el final de la Guerra de Independencia de los Estados
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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.
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