Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Articles

Book Review: Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849

08/26/2025 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Tom DiLorenzo reviews Patrick Newman's Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849. The book posits that early American history is best understood as a struggle between mercantilist elites seeking to plunder the people and libertarians advocating economic freedom.

The New Anti-Communists: Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War

08/11/2025 Power & Market Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War organization has joined with the Daughters of the Confederacy to advocate the restoration of the Confederate Memorial statue, also known as the Reconciliation Statue, to Arlington National Cemetery.

An Open Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent

07/24/2025 Mises Wire Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Dr. DiLorenzo has some words for Secretary Bessent about the true role of the Fed and its record in this open letter.

Publications

Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents

10/30/2024 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and Franklin

The Real Lincoln

01/11/2016 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

In this book, Thomas DiLorenzo calls for a complete rethinking of a central icon of American historiography. He looks at the actions and legacy of Abe Lincoln from an economics point of view to show that Lincoln’s main interest was not in opposing

How Capitalism Saved America

01/11/2016 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Thomas DiLorenzo has a marvelous analytical talent and a knack for drawing the reader’s attention to the material that matters. His new book employs this talent in defense of the whole history of free enterprise in America. How long have we waited

Media

Faculty Panel: Policy and History

07/25/2024 Thomas J. DiLorenzo Patrick Newman Robert P. Murphy Sandra Klein

Mises Institute faculty tackle tough questions on policy, economic history, constitutional interpretation, and practical libertarian strategies in this panel discussion.

An Open Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent

07/24/2025 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Dr. DiLorenzo has some words for Secretary Bessent about the true role of the Fed and its record in this open letter.

I, Mises University

07/22/2025 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I, Pencil, so it is with Mises University.

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.