Today marks the birthday of Ludwig von Mises, and day #2 of our Annual Fall Campaign. Mises was the most important scholar of the twentieth century. He revolutionized our understanding of economic science as a powerful champion of liberty and property and remains one of the greatest enemies of socialism. In the streets of American cities, we are
In the words of Henry Hazlitt, “Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident.” The Mises Institute exists to set the record straight. Economics shouldn’t be left to “experts” with Ivy League degrees serving in government agencies. It is a subject for everyone. One that exposes the schemes of
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The Mises Institute sends a big THANK YOU to everyone who already donated to our Fall Campaign this week. If you haven’t had time to donate, please do so today. For the fourth year in a row, Hunter Lewis—a generous donor, Board member, and author who is passionate about educating a future generation of students—has generously offered to match
We’re pleased to announce our newest project, Economics for Beginners ! Please take a moment to check out the page and share with your friends and family. As Ludwig von Mises understood, the fate of civilization rests upon the ideas that motivate the masses. If we fail to win the battle of ideas, we will see the horrors of history repeated. This
Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe noted Mises’s philosophical rigor: I started out in my intellectual development as a left-winger. That was a time of the Vietnam War and the student protests all around the United States and also in Europe. And this generation, of course, is often blamed for the successive leftward turn of Germany and the march through
We have exciting news for fans of Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe! What if I told you there was an unpublished Hoppean treatise, a staggering book which encapsulated his entire worldview in one magnificent volume? This book exists, and we plan to publish it early spring of next year. And we want you to be part of it. Here’s the background: in June 2004,
The upcoming ZeroHedge Debate—”The Fate Of The US Dollar” —featuring Bob Murphy and Jim Rickards versus Michael Every and Brent Johnson, and moderated by Adam Taggart, will be streamed concurrently on the Mises YouTube Channel on Tuesday (February 13) at 6:00 p.m. CST .
[From the September-October 2023 issue of The Austrian. ] David Jarrett has been a longtime supporter of the Mises Institute and attended Mises’s NYU lectures in 1965, when they were held in Nicholas Hall. The building no longer stands, but the photos that David took one evening with his Leica M3 camera and APO-Summicron-M 90mm f/2 ASPH telephoto
This article appeared as a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal on June 24, 2024, and was made possible by one of our generous donors: Perhaps nothing in financial news receives more attention than an announcement from the Federal Reserve. About eight times per year, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee meets to formally decide
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.