[Editor’s note: In this selection from The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought, Ralph Raico introduces the idea that western Europe was unique in how it approached the power of civil government and sought to limit it. As we will find later in this chapter, Raico sets the origins of the West’s embrace of freedom in the Middle Ages a period characterized by political decentralization and a salutary conflict between civil...
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Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics
4 Lessons We Learned from the Covid Panic of 2020
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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Karl Marx’s Missing Link: Erasing the Line Between Mercantilism and Capitalism
In Das Kapital, Karl Marx outlined a historical progression of socioeconomic systems: tribal communism, slave societies, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, and communism. However, one notable omission from this framework is mercantilism. Why was it left out? While mercantilism and capitalism overlap, they are distinct systems with different economic policies, modes of production, and underlying principles. By omitting mercantilism, Marx could...
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TRUMP ASFIXIA A MADURO CON ARANCELES AL PETRÓLEO
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Geopolitical Playbook for Defeating Russia: The West Germany Blueprint | Marko Papic
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Tesla and Terrorism Nonsense
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Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism
[Editor’s Note: This following article is an adaptation of the introduction to Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism: Essays in Memory of Paul A. Cantor, Edited by Jo Ann Cavallo (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Paul Cantor was (1945-2022) was a student of Ludwig von Mises and an important contributor to mises.org on topics of the intersection between markets and culture.]This collection of essays by experts in diverse fields applies...
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What Might Austerity Look Like in 21st-Century America?
The word “austerity” is defined as sternness or severity of manner or attitude; extreme plainness and simplicity of style or appearance; conditions characterized by severity, sternness, or asceticism; or a way of life that limits luxuries. Austerity is also defined as a set of policies that reduce government spending and increase taxes. These policies can include “austerity measures,” often used during economic crises, including cutting government...
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The Far-Left’s Violent Attacks on Tesla are Revealing
In recent weeks, there has been a sharp increase in violent attacks aimed at destroying cars and other property carrying the logo of Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla. In Colorado, a woman was charged with using Molotov cocktails to set multiple cars at a Tesla dealership on fire before painting the word Nazi on a store sign. In Oregon, one man fired a rifle into one Tesla dealership while someone else fired shots and threw explosives into...
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The Far-Left’s Violent Attacks on Tesla are Revealing
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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Dirk Müller – ️ Wie die Fernbedienung Deine Laune ruiniert & wie Du das ändern kannst
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BLANCANIEVES: UN DESASTRE WOKE Y UNA LECCIÓN ECONÓMICA
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Fourteenth Amendment DEI Lawfare
The politics of the Fourteenth Amendment recently returned to global attention when Colorado attempted to remove President Donald Trump’s name from their presidential election ballot, an attempt that was thwarted by the United States Supreme Court ruling that “Colorado cannot enforce section 3” of the Fourteenth Amendment as states lack power to do so. The jubilation with which the Supreme Court intervention was greeted overshadowed any concerns...
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How Executive Power Can Dismantle the Deep State
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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LA RESERVA FEDERAL SE PONE ALERTA CON LA RECESIÓN
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 3.6 billion francs compared to the previous week
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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SNB Brings Back Zero Percent Interest Rates
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Hold-up sur l’eau potable (2/2) : la supercherie de « l’hydrogène vert ». Par Vincent Held
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