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The Stewards of History Desperately Need Mises

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

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...

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Can the State be Justified?

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

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...

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The Battle of the Confederate Monuments

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

Various justifications have been advanced by those removing or destroying Confederate monuments to explain why they deem it necessary to dismantle the Confederate heritage. For example, the memorial to Zebulon Vance in Asheville, North Carolina was demolished on grounds that it was “a painful symbol of racism.” In the tumult surrounding the Black Lives Matter riots, “168 Confederate symbols were removed across the United States.” In 2020 the...

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Past Tense—The Homeless Problem in Star Trek DS9

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

The third Star Trek series—Deep Space 9—is set on a distant space station-city. The producers had to be creative with the scripts because they are not visiting “strange, new worlds” all the time. In season 3, episodes 11 and 12, titled “Past Tense” they dealt with—thirty years ago in the mid-1990s, mind you—with the US homeless problem of their distant past, set in our future of late August of the year 2024.

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Israel’s Waging Genocide, Not War

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

If it is portrayed as a war crime; genocide—the methodical, malicious murder of the many—can be dismissed as incidental to battle; a mere case of, “Oops, bad things happen in war.” You hear the last phrase all the time from Israel’s supporters, as they gush their enthusiasm for the state’s crimes.

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Henri Bergson: The Philosopher of Life and Creative Evolution

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was a towering figure in the intellectual world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Paris in 1859, Bergson became one of the most celebrated philosophers of his time, known for his innovative ideas on time, consciousness, and the nature of life itself.

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Bringing the Truth

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

Who are they? People just like you. People who happen to care deeply about human liberty and human flourishing. People who care about real economics. People who oppose state power, central banks, and war. People who care about truth and honest history.They come from all walks of life. Some give $20, some give more. But they are all people like you, people who understand the threat statism poses to our world.The Mises Institute is not funded by...

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Donate $5, Get Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State book!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The Mises Institute champions sound economics, individual freedom, and peace. It does so through the promotion, distribution, and extension of the monumental work of economists Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Henry Hazlitt, and other advocates of the free market.Likewise, because of these commitments, the Mises Institute promotes industrious production, peaceful social cooperation, and voluntary exchange.The Mises Institute is proud to...

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Our Fall Campaign Starts Today!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The mission of the Mises Institute is simple. We want to spread the ideas of Ludwig von Mises and the scholars he inspired. Ideas that are vital for a free and prosperous civilization.We do this through our student programs, our popular articles, our podcasts, our vast library of free downloadable books, and our animated videos for beginners.

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Our Fall Campaign Week is Under Way!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The mission of the Mises Institute is simple. We want to spread the ideas of Ludwig von Mises and the scholars he inspired. Ideas that are vital for a free and prosperous civilization.We do this through our student programs, our popular articles, our podcasts, our vast library of free downloadable books, and our animated videos for beginners.

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Has “Neo-Liberalism” Failed in the United States?

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

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. 

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Policing the Narrative

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

The Deep State has struck again. The Biden Administration’s intrepid Department of Justice (DOJ), ever-vigilant in its quest for Russian bogeymen, has proudly announced the seizure of 32 internet domains. Their purported crime? Daring to challenge the regime’s approved narratives.According to the allegations, Russian entities such as Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technology, and ANO Dialog operated these domains under the guidance...

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Warren Buffett, Dave Ramsey, and John Maynard Keynes Are Wrong!

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

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...

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The State’s Cargo Cult Economics

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

In the wake of World War II, an interesting phenomenon began to build up in the Malenesians, the island chains ranging to the southwest from Guinea to Fiji. Visiting anthropologists observed the primitive local residents were building unusual structures. They would flatten the ground in long strips, build wooden towers and construct strange bird idols.The reason they were doing this was, during the war, when Japanese and American soldiers were...

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Tariffs, Protectionism, and Why Borders Matter

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

As Democrats and Republicans both express support for tariffs, the economic implications of protectionist policies are once again at the forefront of public debate. Both parties differ on the size of their proposed tariffs, but the New York Times reports that “both Democrats and Republicans are expressing support for tariffs to protect American industry, reversing decades of trade thinking in Washington.” Proposals to impose tariffs on imports from...

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The Trump Campaign Tries to Buy Votes by Subsidizing IVF

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

With Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris proposing costly new interventionist schemes and co-opting Republican talking points in order to neutralize the unpopularity of rising prices among swing voters, her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has responded by stealing a page from the Democrat state-building playbook. He has raised the bidding for votes with a preposterous new interventionist proposal of his own—a plan to boost fertility...

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Three Contradictions in Krugman’s Take on the Rate Cuts

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

Paul Krugman’s latest column is all over the place. He was trying to provide commentary on the Fed’s half-point cut in the Federal Funds Rate, but he was juggling too many contradictory narratives.The contradictions start at the beginning. The Fed’s decision “was of minimal importance” but also a “momentous move.” It wasn’t important because it just a small change in the overnight interbank interest rate. It was very important because of its effect...

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Explaining Imperialism

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

Imperialism and Social Classesby Joseph Schumpeter; Meridian, 1951 x + 181 pp.Joseph Schumpeter, a contemporary and sometimes rival of Ludwig von Mises, agrees with Mises that capitalism leads to peace, not territorial expansion. The Marxist claim that imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism is thus mistaken. In “The Sociology of Imperialism” (1919), the first of the two essays included in this English translation, Schumpeter offers his own...

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Politics Breeds Conflict while the Market Brings Peace

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

Once again, the presidential selection process has given us a contest between two people who agree on the pressing need to expand the entire welfare-warfare state. They can argue about priorities, but they agree on the overall goal. With the campaign lacking serious issues, something tells me that the great American obsession over race is going to play a major role, which is gravely unfortunate since the discussion is unlikely to be enlightening.Of...

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The Gradual Leftward Shift in US Politics and Economy

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

The American political landscape is often perceived as sharply divided between left and right, with the Democratic Party representing the left and the Republican Party, by default, occupying the right. However, a deeper analysis of the policies and rhetoric of current presidential and vice-presidential candidates reveals a more complex reality. Using a framework of political analysis that considers attitudes towards private property rights,...

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