Education

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Who’s Listening?

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Education

05/15/1973 Leonard E. Read

Listening to the truth always has fortunate results. What does my listening reveal? That learning the truth or spreading wisdom—education—is now and forever an in-taking, never an out-bursting procedure. It may be possible for me to see your...

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Let Freedom Reign

Tags: Education

10/11/1969 Leonard E. Read

Leonard E. Read discusses the importance of freedom as a foundation for finding the answers to the problems induced by central planning and “master minding”. He suggests: “Freedom has come by accident, the result of desperation rather than a...

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Education in America

Tags: Big Government, Education, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History

07/15/1969 George Charles Roche III

From the author: Increasing numbers of Americans express concern over the deterioration of modem society, accurately pinpointing various failings-social, political, and economic. Most of us are far better at discovering shortcomings than...

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Education and the State

Tags: Introductory, Education

06/01/1965 E. G. West

Education and the State first appeared in 1965 and was immediately hailed as one of the century’s most important works on education. In the thirty years that have followed, the questions this book raised concerning state-run education have grown...

Elements of Libertarian Leadership

Tags: Introductory, Education

05/15/1962 Leonard E. Read

It is difficult to set forth the libertarian ideal, but expounding it is simple compared to living by it. Nonetheless, life lived according to right principles can never be more than sporadic except as the ideal is sought for, held up, and used...

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Recollections from the University of Vienna

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Other Schools of Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Education

03/01/1962 Ludwig von Mises

The private seminars that Mises held, and which were so successful in Vienna beginning in 1919, were actually separate from the University. Mises here remembers many of his seminar participants, like Hayek, Haberler, Schütz, and Machlup. He was glad to have contributed to the development of international cooperation among so many economists.

Introduction Economics by John V. Van Sickle

Introduction to Economics

Tags: Intermediate, Education

05/27/1954 John V. Van Sickle

From the authors: This is an elementary introduction to a vast field. We have deliberately refrained from bringing in many of the refinements of theory and for two reasons. First of all, these refinements seem more appropriate to a text for an...

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Students of Liberty

Tags: Introductory, Education

06/16/1950 Leonard E. Read

Most of us do not like to act in areas where we are confused. To do so might cause more harm than good. The question is: Is there some common fault which serves as the root of all these ills, a fault that can be defined and for which treatment...

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The Place of Economics in Learning

Tags: Intermediate, Education

09/14/1949 Ludwig von Mises

“The Place of Economics in Learning” is a chapter from Human Action . It provides an excellent overview of the Misesian worldview concerning economics. It touches on enough points — methodologically, educationally, politically — to invite and...

5.4. The Bureaucratization of the Mind

Tags: Interventionism, Philosophy and Methodology, Education, World History

05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

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.