Currently, the Mises Institute is not officially accredited. However, those who desire to do so can take a final exam and have the results posted online. In this way, economics majors can receive extra credit from professors friendly to the Mises Institute, and finance professionals can curry favor with their bosses if they are fans of the Austrian School.
Then you may boast that you are the only school in the nation that offers any formal study of such economics based in deduction.
The inevitable collapse — and the moral outrage of those it hurts — will continue for as long as the public buys into the myth that higher education (and its professors) are too important to have to keep their costs and production in line with consumer demand.
It may be difficult to understand at first why the members of the Texas Board of Education consider Aquinas, Calvin, and Blackstone more worthy of study than Thomas Jefferson.
By the time the politicians are in charge, most of the eggheads will be in jail or in flight to Canada or Mexico.
Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 26 February 2010.
In areas of normative economics, this event [Becker receiving Prize]will give a sharp boost to many of the free-market views held by Austrians. But, as far as positive economic analysis is concerned, there is no help here for the praxeological school.
Until that happy day when education is disestablished, Illich is searching for methods of moving strongly away from the public education system.
Given the rate at which our wealth and culture seem to be eroding away from beneath our feet, I urge both my elders and my peers to oppose the leviathan state and its cronies at every turn so we can start a new journey toward lasting prosperity.
Western society uses its schools and other public institutions to build an impenetrable wall of destructive social conditioning around the individual.
