Please consider helping us publish these two new books: The World at War and Austrian Business Cycle Theory: an Introduction . Everyone giving $500 or more will appear as a Patron in these books. To become a Patron, contact Kristy Holmes at kristy@mises.org or DONATE ONLINE. The World at War by Ralph Raico edited by Edward Fuller To understand
Lew Rockwell has dedicated his life to spreading the ideas of the Austrian School. Today, we honor Lew on his birthday, and it’s only fitting we release the trailer for our new documentary, Playing with Fire: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve . With your help, we will release it to the public right before the election. Over forty years ago,
Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action was published on this date in 1949. From the beginning, the Mises Institute’s mission has been to champion this book’s importance in the history of economic thought. In the words of Henry Hazlitt, in his New York Times Review : Human Action is, in short, at once the most uncompromising and the most rigorously
Dr. Gary Schlarbaum, one of our generous supporters, has again offered to match all donations received through December 7. That means your $10 donation becomes $20, your $25 donation becomes $50, and so on. With a donation of $25 or more, you’ll receive a copy of Jeff Deist’s The Imposers and the Imposed Upon . And, thanks to Gary, your donation
The 2020 election has highlighted what we have long understood. America is not a united nation, but an empire ruled by an imperial city under the façade of “democracy.” Now, more and more Americans are waking up to this reality and reconsidering the legitimacy of our federal government. In the minibook The Imposers and the Imposed Upon , which
The new special double issue on entrepreneurship is here ! Guest edited by Per Bylund, this issue suggests directions for future research and collaboration within Austrian economics and in the scholarship of entrepreneurship. Contributions offer a multitude of perspectives on a broad set of entrepreneurship-related issues. From Dr. Bylund’s
“As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny is at stake.” —Ludwig von Mises Inspired in part by an unsuccessful plan in 1949 to create a Liberal Institute under the leadership of Ludwig von Mises at the University of Chicago, a newly created Mises Institute
Video: Mises Institute Senior Fellow Alex Pollock moderates a panel discussion on Lawrence White’s new book Better Money: Gold, Fiat, Or Bitcoin?. The event is sponsored by the Federalist Society. White delves into the timely debate surrounding alternative currencies amidst the backdrop of constant inflation in the fiat currency world. Better
With your support, the Mises Institute can send Mises University students home with a stack of Austrian classics such as “Human Action”; “Man, Economy, and State”; and “The Case for Gold” (see full list at the bottom of this email). After a week of destroying every preconceived, state-curriculum notion of how the world works, Mises U grads will
Dear Friend, It is a very proud moment when we see one of our students fly. Patrick Newman first came to the Mises Institute in 2011 as a Mises University student. He returned as a graduate student for Rothbard Graduate Seminar, and then as a Fellow. We’ve watched him build his academic career, authoring books and mentoring his own students. In
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