Ludwig von Mises is not an easy figure to get your arms around. His writings total tens of thousands of pages. A newcomer to Mises could be lost in this vast body of work. That’s why the Institute is publishing The Mises Reader. Mises put the ideals of liberty, property, and peace before his professional prestige, his career, his income, even his
Happy Independence Day weekend from everyone at the Mises Institute. It’s fitting that in the week leading up to our American celebration of secession that we have been able to applaud Britain for their own separation from a legislative body that Angel Merkel was forced to admit is about political control, and not free trade . The more the
Writing for Entrepreneur , Per Bylund offers three arguments for why innovation skeptics are wrong. With the Tesla 3 hitting the markets, innovation is on everybody’s minds. However, an electric car is hardly revolutionary: It’s at best an evolution of what already exists. While Elon Musk’s venture is touted as innovative, it can be seen as a
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Surprising no one, the FOMC announced this week that they would maintain the status quo on the federal funds rate. Meanwhile housing prices are outpacing household wages , with Ryan McMaken noting that the Fed’s suppression of interest rates has led to consumers replacing “saving with consumer debt (i.e., mortgages) and a hope that people can
Following his recent article on Austrian Business Cycle Theory and the Great Depression , Jonathan Newman, along with Joseph Salerno, join Tom Woods on the latest episode of the Tom Woods Show .
Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination this week after Ted Cruz and John Kasich suspended their campaigns following the Indiana primary. Unfortunately, he also backtracked on some of his previous criticisms of the Fed’s low interest rate policy. Meanwhile, Peter Klein notes that the New York Times was guilty of “preposterous”
PressTV reports [ see full video ]: Press TV: What has gone wrong with the US economy? [Mark] Thornton: Well the unemployment report today is very disturbing. The number came in 160,000 new jobs all of which are accounted for in the service sector and all the other sectors of the American economy are negative in terms of job growth or very
This talk, delivered by Lew Rockwell at a memorial service for Murray Rothbard, gives a great perspective on Rothbard’s life, work, influence, courage, and personality. Especially fascinating is Rockwell’s account of Rothbard’s willingness to defy political boundaries and work with both Left and Right — causing each to believe fervently that he
Thanks to the Rothbard Reading Group at Southeast Missouri State University for hosting Joseph Salerno last Tuesday, April 19. Dr. Salerno spoke on “Money and the State.” Salerno writes: “Murray Rothbard lectured at the University in 1989. He had been invited by Dr. Peter Kerr — a long-time friend of the Mises Institute — who was in attendance at
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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.