Is college over? You know the answer. I know the answer. But we’re in limbo. We still hate to think of our kids and grandkids not going to college. We are stuck in Baby Boomer and Gen X mindsets. University degrees were a big part of our identity and professional careers. We want young people to be educated in the real sense of the word—and better
Should young people go to college? Should parents, grandparents, and teachers urge them to go to college? These are now open questions. Perhaps we should ask whether they “still” should go to college. Not too long ago, the default answer was a resounding yes . College was not only the path to higher earnings, but the gateway to status :
[Reprinted from the Lara-Murphy Report , February 2017.] LARA-MURPHY REPORT: How did you become interested in Austrian economics? JEFF DEIST: Fortunately Austrian economics became interested in me, through two happy developments. First, my father had a tattered paperback copy of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom on his bookshelf when I was a teenager.
You can help the Mises Institute publish an exciting new book this spring from one of our Senior Fellows, and it couldn’t be more timely. Dr. Mark Thornton’s text — titled The Skyscraper Curse — is his definitive work on booms and busts, and it explains why only Austrian economists really understand them. It makes business cycle theory accessible
Join the Mises Institute as we welcome more than 130 students from all over the world to our Auburn campus! Mises U 2014 is a full week of Austrian scholarship that can’t be found anywhere else on the planet. Coming tonight at 8:00 PM EST (7:00 PM Central Time), Tom Woods will give the opening lecture for Mises University. Join us online to see
Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, recently spoke with The Free Market about his introduction to the Austrian School and his work with Ron Paul. Mises Institute: How did you become interested in Austrian economics? Jeff Deist: My journey with Austrian economics and the Mises Institute began in 1992. I was fortunate to have a good
[ From a talk delivered at the Boston Mises Circle , October 1, 2016. ] A journalist from the Chronicle of Higher Education contacted me recently asking about free-market think tanks affiliated with universities. Can the Mises Institute or other organizations produce the scientific foundation for what he sees as an increasing faith among
[Jeff Deist’s comments at the 2016 Mises Supporters Summit in Asheville, North Carolina, September 16.] Before we hear from Judge Napolitano, I’d like to speak briefly tonight about where we are as a society, and what role the Mises Institute plays, or ought to play, in that society. Most of the country is caught up in the presidential election,
The late economist Friedrich Hayek, celebrated earlier this week on the anniversary of his birthday, left an enduring body of work and a place in history as the reluctant winner of a Nobel Prize he thought suited only to the physical sciences. But exactly how enduring his work and his legacy will remain is an important question, and not just for
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