We’ve just completed another successful Mises University, the summer instructional seminar for students hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Interest in Austrian economics continues to grow: we could accept fewer than one-third of qualified applicants. Although the students are widely read, they share a particular fascination with the works
The media’s caricature of libertarians is a pendulum that swings from one extreme to another. One minute we’re grasping plutocrats, championing the privileged, and the next minute we’re losers living in our parents’ basements. Not long ago, Michael Lind adopted the first of these, professing to find it risible that a libertarian might pose as the
A great many people — more than ever, probably — describe themselves as supporters of the free market today, in spite of the unrelenting propaganda against it. And that’s great. Those statements of support, however, are followed by the inevitable but : but we need government to provide physical security and dispute resolution, the most critical
Forty years ago, Ludwig von Mises passed away. I believe he would be happy with what you have helped the Mises Institute accomplish. Looking back on his career, we find so much that deserves comment. His work in Austria that helped avert hyperinflation. His flight from Europe just ahead of the Nazis, who confiscated his papers in Vienna. His
Dear Friends, April 15th is a horrible day, because it sums up all the wealth destruction called taxation that we are subjected to all year long. As Murray Rothbard pointed out, taxation is the worst method of looting us. Inflation is destructive, of course, and it might make a loaf of bread cost $10. But at least you get a loaf of bread. With
Fascismo vs. capitalismo: el conflicto ideológico central de nuestros tiempos «Fascismo» se ha convertido en un término de escarnio y reprensión. Se lanza despreocupadamente en dirección a cualquier cosa que disguste a un crítico. Incluso los libertarios (que son el epítome del antifascismo) son calificados como fascistas de vez en cuando. Pero el
La reciente inauguración del Instituto Ron Paul para la Paz y la Prosperidad fue un punto de inflexión en la historia estadounidense. Nunca ha habido nada como esto. Ideológicamente diverso, el Instituto Ron Paul llega a todos los estadounidenses y también a gente en todo el mundo, que encuentran que el espectro de la opinión sobre política
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.