Fifteen years ago Gabriel Calzada was a Fellow at the Mises Institute who aspired to bring the Spanish Scholastics ‘ tradition of liberty to Latin America. Today he is president of Universidad Francisco Marroquín , the truly remarkable private school in Guatemala. All students at UFM, regardless of major, take a core curriculum in libertarian
David Gordon joins Jeff Deist to consider the important philosophy—and philosophers—libertarians need to know. Starting with Mises’s influences in Human Action , Dr. Gordon moves through the 20th century with a great discussion of John Rawls and Robert Nozick. He also suggests the books that Austro-libertarians need to read, even if they’re
Hope is in short supply these days, while despair and hate are enjoying an enormous surplus. To give an example, there are currently two types of stories that fill my news feed. The first are about politics and the perpetual horrors it unleashes on the world: there’s a new scandal every day, and war, protectionism, and nationalism are on the rise,
[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.
Hay escasez de esperanza hoy en día, mientras que tenemos un enorme exceso de desesperación y odio. Por dar un ejemplo, hay actualmente dos tipos de historias que llenan mi news feed . El primero se refiere a la política y los horrores perpetuos que desencadena sobre el mundo: hay un nuevo escándalo cada día y la guerra, el proteccionismo y el
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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.