Last week the Mises Institute hosted another outstanding Austrian Economics Research Conference at our campus in Auburn. Attendees enjoyed three days of cross-disciplinary presentations by more than 50 academics, PhD candidates, and economics/finance professionals, all working in the most provocative traditions of Austrian and libertarian thought.
Opening comments presented at the Mises Institute’s High School & College Seminar: “Inflation: Causes, Consequences, and Cure,” April 11, 2014. Good morning and welcome! My name is Jeff Deist; I’m president of the Mises Institute. Thank you for coming, and congratulations! Congratulations? Why congratulations, you might ask? Well, congratulations
Governments, at least modern western governments, have always hated cash. Cash is private, and cash transactions are hard to tax. As Joe Salerno explains, the US fedgov’s relentless War on Cash has been ongoing . Now one of the primary weapons in that War, the misnamed Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, has targeted a prominent retired politician. When I
Last Friday came the unpleasant news that Ross Ulbricht, the 31-year-old former operator of the Silk Road site, has been sentenced by a federal court to life in prison without parole. This follows his conviction in February for typically dubious (nowhere in the Constitution) federal crimes including conspiracy, money laundering, and the circular
The much-hyped Thomas Piketty has given an interview to Die Zeit in which he lambastes Germany as hypocritical on the issue of Greek debt repayment. It’s fascinating and astonishing to witness. The great centralizers seem surprised that yoking together wildly different nations, economies, languages, and cultures doesn’t work. This is what Mr.
At the Mises Institute, we don’t support particular candidates for office or legislative policy proposals. We’re primarily interested in ideas and education. And many of our most ardent supporters don’t believe in voting or political activism at all (although no less than Walter Block does ). But like Murray Rothbard, we of course maintain a
The late Murray Rothbard was known as an uncompromising libertarian theorist. But he was also an activist and strategist, and wrote several articles, essays, and memos on the topic of advancing libertarianism. I’m happy to report that some of his previously unpublished work on strategy will be released later this year by the Mises Institute, and
Decentralization and devolution of state power is always a good thing, regardless of the motivations behind such movements. Hunter S. Thompson, looking back on 60s counterculture in San Francisco, lamented the end of that era and its imagined flower-child innocence: So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and
I recently was invited to speak at the annual convention of the Texas Libertarian Party, and was struck by how libertarians cling to an outdated and counterproductive conception of the political landscape. In particular, many libertarians remain wedded to a misguided understanding of what the threat to liberty really is, where it comes from, and
Ed: The following is an excerpt from a talk given by Mises Institute president Jeff Deist at the 2016 Texas Libertarian Party convention. This portion of the talk deals with the political reality faced by libertarians and the Libertarian Party. The full talk can be viewed here . So what do I mean by better understanding and accepting reality? What
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