[This is the introduction to The Left, the Right, and the State .] In American political culture, and world political culture too, the divide concerns in what way the state’s power should be expanded. The Left has a laundry list and the Right does too. Both represent a grave threat to the only political position that is truly beneficial to the
Paul Gottfried writes as follows: I’ve just reread Bob Higgs’s Schlarbaum Address , which is so BRILLIANT that it would require an entire book to answer the questions therein raised. Bob is absolutely correct that “liberal democratic” government is unmistakably oligarchic, that it continues to put its subjects in harm’s way, and that it milks
Among those who are bemoaning the election results, one must ask supporters of liberty: given the choices, what would have been a good outcome? We’ve lived through eight years of what might possibly be the worst executive-driven meltdown of human liberty outside civil or world war in American history, and this is true regarding domestic policy and
John Nash, who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics, praised the gold standard in a recent talk at Fordham. Here’s an excerpt from the news report: Nash said that various interest groups that subscribe to Keynesian, or short-term, economic theories have sold the public on the notion that inflation is acceptable or that “bad money is better than
From Mary Sennholz and Robert G. Anderson comes the very sad news of the death of Beth Hoffman, a brilliant libertarian. I got to know Beth’s competence and dedication when we worked together at Hillsdale College. So I was not surprised that when she joined the staff at FEE, she became – for more than 30 years – the heart and soul of the place,
Concebí originalmente este discurso (un alegato por la abolición del banco central) como una actualización aplicada de mi conferencia de 1995 en la Fundación Heritage sobre « Por qué importa la economía austriaca ». Porque muchas de las ideas políticas sugeridas dentro del marco austriaco pueden resumirse bajo la necesidad de abolir el banco
What is the Mises Institute?
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.