David T. Beito

Latest work

04/19/2024 Robert P. Murphy David T. Beito

Historian David Beito joins Bob to discuss issues such as the Japanese concentration camps and the government's mass surveillance of telegrams.

Politicized Investing

11/01/1997 Free Market David T. Beito

The Free Market 15, no. 11 (November 1997) Making lots of money is evil say the politically correct. It’s sleazy, socially destructive, and almost always immoral, unless profits are given away to left...

Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance During the Great Depression

12/10/1989 David T. Beito

David Beito has brought to light a remarkable and previously unknown chapter of the Great Depression: its tax revolts. They were widespread and systematic, and they made such huge progress that in some places they threatened to bring local and state

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.