World History

Entrepreneurship still isn’t very popular in economics, but Austrian ideas are increasingly influential in contemporary management research, where the future is bright for young Austrians.

Revolutionaries often place their trust in unlimited government to remake the world in their image, but unrestrained states have a habit of turning on those who support them.

On behalf of everyone at the Mises Institute, we wish you a very happy, healthy, peaceful, and productive New Year! In this talk, Murray Rothbard reflects on the past while looking to the future of peace and free markets in our society. 

Mises Daily Weekend by David Gordon.

David Gordon explains how Hans-Hermann Hoppe, while avoiding undue pessimism, takes the conventional view of "progress" in Western society and turns the narrative on its head.

Mises Daily Weekend by David Gordon: Thinkers Who Challenged the State

This essay is adapted from David Gordon’s talk at the Costa Mesa Mises Circle. Click here to register for January’s Houston Mises Circle.

While we are told today that an anarchist society is unachievable, the ancients believed such a society to be achievable but undesirable. The world would have to wait for later theorists like Bastiat and Oppenheimer, who explained the true costs of the state.

Downton Abbey, which returns for a fifth season in January, features an even-handed treatment of the British aristocracy. But behind this nuanced view remains the fact that titled aristocrats usually owe their positions to government favoritism and cronyism.

The Velvet Revolution, during which the people of Czechoslovakia revolted against their communist masters, turns twenty-five years old this month.  Many people from formerly-communist economies have learned much from the experience, even if many in the West have not.

Berlin provides us with an example that comes as close to that of a controlled social experiment as one could probably hope to get, writes Hans Hop