Diploma Inflation and the Erosion of Academic Signaling
Economists have said that a higher education degree is a form of “signaling” by the person holding the diploma. Thanks to government attempts to make higher education readily available, the value of a college degree has been severely degraded.
What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class
The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.
Mercantilism in America: The Trouble with Self-Sufficiency
President Trump has invoked the ancient fallacies of mercantilism in fashioning his protectionist trade policies. We will find that mercantilism is just as harmful today than it was hundreds of years ago when it first became Britain‘s national policy.
MAHA is a Movement of Government Overreach
Robert Kennedy‘s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crusade is being promoted as a government-led effort to eliminate health hazards in food and medicine. However, MAHA depends upon government overreach, which ultimately will undermine any good MAHA does.
Marxist Theories of Oppression
Academic scholars tend to use Marxian terms when pointing out what they see as conditions of “oppression,” believing that race and class determine outcomes. However, the real world is not so abstract and things often are not what Marxists believe to be true.
Marx’s Economic Forecasts: Over 150 Years of Failure
Karl Marx still is revered by modern academics as a prophet. However, given Marx‘s penchant for making false predictions, at best he would be a false prophet, someone whose word cannot be trusted.
The Misesian
Rothbard’s “Anatomy of the State” introduces the state as a unique, coercive institution, distinct from society. The latest Misesian expands on this view, examining historical commentary on the state’s emergence and its central role in modernity.
The Rise of War Propaganda and the Defeat of Laissez-Faire
In this lecture from the Mises Institute's recent Conference on War Revisionism, McMaken looks at how classical liberals' pro-peace foreign policy was defeated by a century of war propaganda beginn
Why Are US Drug Prices So High?
Alex Tabarrok joins Bob to break down Trump’s drug price executive order, price controls, and the real economics behind Big Pharma and healthcare innovation.
Resurrection of the Skyscraper Curse?
With the resurrection of Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower project set for completion around 2027, could another global economic crisis be imminent?
A History of Political Theory in the West
Political Scientist Joseph Solis-Mullen joins Ryan McMaken to review Ralph Raico's newly published lectures on politics in the West.
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In May 2025, the Mises Institute will hold its next Mises Book Club, a program that promotes deep reading in Austrian economics.
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The Rothbard Graduate Seminar provides an intense study of Misesian and Rothbardian economic analysis, along with the substantive conclusions of that research in related fields.
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Auburn, AL
Virtual Mises University is the online counterpart to the Mises University conference and can be attended by anyone.
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Auburn, Alabama
Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics.
