“We have already had this conversation. The 20th century was a long (and bloody) debate about alternative modes of social organization.” Somewhere, there are two graduate students in the social sciences who need dissertation topics. Those students should be watching the Occupy Wall Street movement with keen eyes, because, as it evolves, it’s
[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The Tea Party’s Revolution”] Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard and a journalist whose work appears in the major mainstream media. The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times are on the list of publications to which she contributes, as is The New Yorker , where she’s
Savannah Liston, 17, recently posted comments on her Facebook page, expressing excitement that would be reserved by other teenagers for having won free tickets and an all-expenses-paid trip to a Mumford & Sons concert. Savannah’s event? An online introduction to logic class. 12 hours before class started — “Bad news: FB finally forced me to get
[Robert Lawson’s online course Economic Freedom Around the World begins October 18.] The key ingredients of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange coordinated by markets, freedom to enter and compete in markets, and protection of persons and their property from aggression by others. These four cornerstones imply that economic
I wrote the following three Mises Wiki “stubs” (incomplete articles) by taking every paragraph from the first section of the introduction to Human Action , asking myself “What topic would this paragraph best apply to?” and then plumbing my memory and doing a bit of research. The resulting three articles are “German Idealism,” “Utopia,” and
I recently purchased the new model of Barnes and Noble’s Nook eReader. (I reviewed the older Nook here and here .) It is a very new gadget, but it is now filled, almost exclusively, with very old books. A recent article in the New York Times argued that the tea-party movement is, to some extent, inspired by “long-ago texts” and “long-dormant
If you have the right skills, ghostwriting term papers is one of the most financially rewarding jobs an undergraduate can have. These shadow scholars can write anything from your basic term paper to a doctoral thesis. Build enough of a client base, and you can easily earn $250 per week, working no more than two or three hours per day. This is more
Education elites and their political cronies have implemented countless initiatives aimed at reforming education. From the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, every plan put forth has resulted in nothing but inefficient expenditures, new layers of bureaucracy, and continuing declines in student
America’s system of education is plagued by problems. The natural tendency for politicians and technocrats in search of solutions is to devise grandiose plans that involve more testing, regulation, and spending. However, these schemes do nothing to alleviate the root cause of problems, and indeed only serve to perpetuate them. What our system of
Since 1979 the Department of Education (DOE) has steadily grown its empire. The fear that was once shared by Democrats and Republicans alike has become reality: the federal government has seized power from parents and local educators and now exerts unprecedented influence in our nation’s classrooms. Its $14.5 billion budget in 1979 now pales in
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.