The Journal of Libertarian Studies An Interdisciplinary Review Volume 22 (2010–2011) Alfred G. Cuzán Revisiting “Do We Ever Really Got Out of Anarchy?” Gerard Casey Reflections on Legal Polycentrism Jan Krepelka A Pure Libertarian Theory of Immigration John Brätland An Austrian Reexamination of Recent Thoughts on the Rise and Collapse of Societies
This week graduate students from around the world gathered at the Mises Institute for our annual Rothbard Graduate Seminar. The subject this year focused on Ludwig von Mises’s seminal treatise Human Action , with the students receiving instruction from Professors Guido Hülsmann, Jeffrey Herbener, David Gordon, Peter Klein, Joseph Salerno, and Mark
Last weekend’s horrific terrorist attack in Orlando dominated the headlines this week, another example of how government can’t be trusted to keep us safe. Predictably, politicians shamelessly jumped on the tragedy to try to curtail gun rights, ignoring the fact that homicides are at a 51-year low . Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve shocked no one by
Institut Coppet in France has recently made available a French translation of Murray Rothbard’s Education: Free and Compulsory . The French version is available for purchase, here . The new translation was favorably reviewed in the Swiss economic and financial newspaper L’Agefi . The review can be read here . Institut Coppet has completed
“Our greatest enemy today, in short, is the economic illiteracy and confusion on the part of those who insist on “planning,” “stabilizing,” and straitjacketing the economy and who have the political power to do it.” So wrote Henry Hazlitt in 1946 , words that sadly retain their relevancy today. The consequences of this pervasive fallacy takes many
History was made this week as the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. By rejecting globalism and embracing self-determination , Brexit is an example of decentralization and devolution of state power, which is always worthy of celebration . Further, as Thorsten Polleit notes , the move made economic sense for Britain with the EU
Today the Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor written by Mark Thornton on the Fed’s basic misunderstanding of “natural” interest rates. Dr. Thornton writes: Federal Reserve officials are right to suggest that the so-called “natural” rate is important (“Fed Struggles With Long-Term Policy,” U.S. News, June 13). It is critical
Ludwig von Mises is not an easy figure to get your arms around. His writings total tens of thousands of pages. A newcomer to Mises could be lost in this vast body of work. That’s why the Institute is publishing The Mises Reader. Mises put the ideals of liberty, property, and peace before his professional prestige, his career, his income, even his
Happy Independence Day weekend from everyone at the Mises Institute. It’s fitting that in the week leading up to our American celebration of secession that we have been able to applaud Britain for their own separation from a legislative body that Angel Merkel was forced to admit is about political control, and not free trade . The more the
Writing for Entrepreneur , Per Bylund offers three arguments for why innovation skeptics are wrong. With the Tesla 3 hitting the markets, innovation is on everybody’s minds. However, an electric car is hardly revolutionary: It’s at best an evolution of what already exists. While Elon Musk’s venture is touted as innovative, it can be seen as a
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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.