Senior Fellow Dr. Jeffrey Herbener was awarded the 2024 Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics at our annual Supporters Summit.

Without such boundaries, social life would cease to exist. Ludwig von Mises explains this simple fact in the sub-section “State and Government” in his classic book Liberalism. He notes that, “A small ...

When the end of another year rolls around it is not a bad idea to think about how we might improve ourselves and perhaps even improve the lives of others given the clean slate of a New Year. Many ...

One of Murray Rothbard’s greatest contributions to American history was his analysis of the Progressives, and in this week’s column I’m going to discuss two key themes from that analysis, themes that ...

That’s what Mises Institute president Tom DiLorenzo did this past July when he gave a lecture on why Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt are actually three of the worst presidents in US history. We liked ...

By doing this, the government weakens the wealth-generating process and undermines real economic growth. According to Mises, …there is need to emphasize the truism that a government can spend or ...

During a recent podcast, the woman who accused three Duke University lacrosse players of beating and raping her in 2006 admitted that she had lied about the whole thing: “I testified falsely against ...

In a recent Mises lecture, Joseph Salerno elucidated how politicians, many mainstream economists, and the general public operate according to the fallacious “Santa Claus principle” rather than the ...

At the end of every year, as we make our way through the holidays, you’ll hear no shortage of complaints about the rampant hyper-consumerism at the heart of modern American society. And these ...

Revolutionary totalitarian regimes have long attempted to make Christmas disappear, or to at least make Christmas into something more to the state’s liking. The earliest example of this can found with ...

Lew Rockwell explains: Following the great Murray Rothbard, we should ask, do we need a State at all? Rothbard’s answer was a clear “No.” And not only do we not need a State; the State is a menace… ...

We would be much farther down the road to serfdom without the Mises Institute. For several decades, I have considered the Mises Institute my Mecca. Every year, I made a pilgrimage to Auburn to spend a ...