Education

The bias in favor of "education" is a bias in favor of the opinions of the intellectual classes: it is a devotion to the status quo.

Auburn, Alabama, is featured on the front cover of today's Wall Street Journal. I was interviewed extensively for the story, but was not mentioned. The story is about the relationship between the state university and increased manufacturing jobs.

Yuri Maltsev, a victim of Soviet totalitarianism in his youth, explains how and why westerners still don't understand what socialism really means.

The centralization of education is rooted in the idea that education must be provided by the government — and not purchased in the marketplace.

Ending the taxpayer-funded gravy train for colleges will force them to cater to students instead of to the special interests that now control them.

Higher education degrees no longer hold any value for employers.

We allowed economics to be lost when we decided it was too complicated and too technical for intelligent laypeople to understand.

Watch or listen to Jeff Deist's talk at the Mises Circle in Boston.

Jeff Deist and John O'Donnell discuss what is really being taught in American Econ programs today, the college federal loan scam, and more.

In the tradition of Ludwig von Mises himself, the Mises Institute works daily to pass on sound economics to a new generation of teachers and writers.