Max Weber, citing Leon Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk , bluntly stated that “every state is founded on violence.” The imaginative theories that have been at times employed to justify the state violence do...
Back in 2018, the EU Supreme Court ( CJoEU) shocked the investment world when it invalidated an arbitration clause ruling that the EU legislation can solely be interpreted by the EU state courts. Less...
Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter.
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.
