Biographies

Patrick Newman on what Murray Rothbard can still teach us today.

The historic contribution of Mises was represented not so much by the magisterial works that he produced in 1912, or 1922, in 1933, or 1940 — as by his courageous, lonely vigil during the arid decades of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

Presented at the Mises Institute's 2018 Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama.

Fetter is mostly neglected today, but he had a powerful influence on practically every Austrian economist in the first half of the 20th century.

Hegel, unfortunately, was not a bizarre aberrant force in European thought. He was one of many infected by Romanticism.

"He used Menger’s edifice as a framework, and then he solidified its foundations and proceeded to build an entire basilica on top of it. It was an enormous achievement."

Thanks to Mises, we now understand that the only way that socialists can solve the problem of resource allocation is by adopting capitalism.

Jonathan Newman discusses the contributions of Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993), the brilliant popularizer of sound economics.

Guido Hülsmann highlights the life and work of Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), arguably the greatest economist of all time. 

What can we can learn from the early Austrian economists about the alleged decadence of Vienna in their time?