Birsen Filip

Dr. Birsen Filip is an economist and a philosopher. She is specialized in the history of economic thought, philosophy of economics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and continental philosophy. She has published numerous academic articles and chapters on a range of topics, including the neo-liberal school of economic thought, the Austrian School of Economics, the German Historical School of Economics, German Idealism, liberalism, ordo-liberalism, imperialism, and socialism. She is also the author of two books: The Early History of Economics in the United States: The Influence of the German Historical School of Economics on Teaching and Theory (Routledge, 2022); and, The Rise of Neo-liberalism and the Decline of Freedom (Palgrave McMillan, 2020).

Articles

A Brief History of the Enduring American Embargo against Cuba

10/25/2025 Mises Wire Birsen Filip

For more than 60 years, the US Government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing that has collapsed, however, is the logic in the US policy.

Murray Rothbard on Communism and Cuba

10/21/2025 Mises Wire Birsen Filip

While Murray Rothbard opposed the communist system, he also recognized that Cuba was no threat to the US militarily or economically. That is why he believed the US must recognize Cuba's government and permit trade and travel between the two countries.

Rothbard on America’s Economic War against Cuba

10/14/2025 Mises Wire Birsen Filip

No one opposed communism more than Murray Rothbard, but he also recognized that US policy toward Cuba was unjust, self-defeating, and would fail to accomplish the government’s stated goals of regime change.

Media

US Travel Restrictions for Cuba Violate the Freedoms of Americans and Cubans

08/09/2025 Birsen Filip

A relic of the Cold War, the US embargo and travel restrictions to Cuba violate American freedoms and they accomplish nothing to end Cuba's communist regime or win freedom for Cubans. Yet, this failed policy has persisted for nearly 65 years with no end in sight.

How the Woke Left Is Destroying Education

05/01/2023 Birsen Filip

Adherents of leftist dogma increasingly push the notion that teachers should be permitted to distract, confuse, or influence their students by discussing their personal beliefs, ideas, and private activities and choices in the classroom.

Multinational Agrichemical Corporations and the Great Food Transformation

11/09/2022 Birsen Filip

As "decarbonize agriculture" becomes the watchword, powerful multinational agriculture firms have embraced the 2030 UN agenda. Their actions will result in widespread hunger.