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The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System

01/11/2016 Ron Paul

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America’s broken education...

Against Leviathan

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 Robert Higgs

What is fundamentally wrong with government today? In Against Leviathan, economist and historian, Robert Higgs, offers an unflinching critical analysis of government power in all its aspects: welfare, warfare, regulation, spying, and its...

Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 Robert Higgs

At least since World War I, Austrians have pointed to the relationship between warmongering and the decline of economic liberty. In our times, Robert Higgs is the most articulate and learned upholder of the position that free markets require...

Energy: The Master Resource

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 Robert L. Bradley Jr. Richard W. Fulmer

Robert Bradley, a leading free market energy economist, has in collaboration with Richard Fulmer put together an outstanding book that covers the huge subject of energy, beginning with answers to the most fundamental questions (What is energy...

The Church and the Market

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

In fact, Thomas Woods’s book on Catholic social teaching surpasses any other book ever published in this genre. Rather than merely recount what has been said, he subjects the corpus to a relentless examination, highlighting contradictions and...

How Capitalism Saved America

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

01/11/2016 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Thomas DiLorenzo has a marvelous analytical talent and a knack for drawing the reader’s attention to the material that matters. His new book employs this talent in defense of the whole history of free enterprise in America. How long have we...

The State of the Union

Tags: Media and Culture

01/11/2016 Albert Jay Nock

Alber Jay Nock is an aristocrat who sees the state as the enemy of all that is beautiful and true, an effortless anarchist who lives and breathes ancient wisdom, an opinionated essayist who draws the reader in through anecdotes and stories...

Is the Auto Loan Bubble Ready to Pop?

Tags: Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 Tommy Behnke

The housing bubble has been replaced by a number of new bubbles. Among them is the auto loan bubble. Car loans now last longer than ever and are going to more people with bad credit. This might not end well.

The Real Value of a Powerball Ticket

Tags: Subjectivism, Value and Exchange, Media and Culture

01/10/2016 Matthew McCaffrey

Rather than a cold estimate of the probability of future returns, the Powerball actually illustrates the subjective theory of value.

The Big Short

Tags: Booms and Busts, Corporate Welfare, The Fed, Financial Markets, Media and Culture

01/09/2016 Mark Thornton

The Big Short is a pretty good movie, but there are a few things it leaves out.

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.

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