Jean Vilbert

Articles

When Billionaires Want to Get Rid of Capitalism

10/29/2019 Mises Wire Jean Vilbert

“Successful economies are not jungles, they’re gardens, which is to say that markets, like gardens, must be tended, that the market is the greatest social technology ever invented to solving human...

6 Reasons Why the Most Hated Politician in Latin America Became President of Brazil

11/21/2019 Mises Wire Jean Vilbert

Jair Bolsonaro is likely to be the most despised politician in Latin America. At least among a certain portion of the population. Some say he is the “ Trump of the tropics” — in a pejorative way, of...

The Failure of the Welfare State: The Case of Argentina and Brazil

09/26/2019 Mises Wire Jean Vilbert

The idea of a “third way” in economic policy has fascinated politicians, scholars, artists, and the voters around the world. Surfing this wave, the welfare state has spread quickly in recent decades...

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.