Life without international trade: using local labor and materials only, a suit takes 500 man-hours to produce. And it’s not exactly high-quality. But what a great teaching project by Kelly Cobb of Drexel University. Here’s the story from Wired
In Germany, 3 families face fines, frozen accounts for homeschooling their children A German family has been subject to threats from the National Socialist government of Germany, because they’re trying to homeschool their children. The family wants to raise their own children, to oversee their sex education, and protect them from the occult (hmm,
I was tooling through Digg’s front page last night and came across one of those irresistible top ten titles: “ 10 Sites the Violate Digg’s TOS.” Oh fun! Click. And then shock: The site linked , RyanUnderdown.com, listed Mises.org as #2! Huh? It was like the Twilight Zone. As I looked through the rest of the list, it was clear what was going on
Summer is a great time for kids to pursue a different kind of learning. Economics, for example. For the most part, they don’t teach this stuff in school, and when they do, it’s usually about the glories of government management. Economics is not to be neglected in education! The student either will either receive guidance or fall victim to
King Juan Carlos University has started the program under the direction of Jesus Huerta de Soto. You can get a masters and PhD degrees. For information email: master.oficial@urjc.es
The results are in for the first ever National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test in economics -- the feds consider the NAEP to be the “nation’s report card.” Supposedly, the results show that American public school students have achieved a high level of academic progress in economics by 12th grade. Read the sample question below
I read where tuition and fees at private colleges are up 5.9% this year. well, first of all you know that number is no more reliable than the polls of KIm Jong-II’s popularity taken on North Korean streets — with the secret police standing by: about as meaningful as sticker prices on a lot full of Kias. I mean 75% of students get some kind of
Garrison Keillor notes the anniversary of the GI Bill on the Writer’s Almanac : It was on this day in 1944 that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the GI Bill of Rights. It was one of the most important and influential pieces of legislation ever signed by an American president, but the newspapers barely covered the story at the time.
Some excellent material, including images, at GCC.edu .
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.