I wrote the following three Mises Wiki “stubs” (incomplete articles) by taking every paragraph from the first section of the introduction to Human Action , asking myself “What topic would this paragraph best apply to?” and then plumbing my memory and doing a bit of research. The resulting three articles are “German Idealism,” “Utopia,” and
I recently purchased the new model of Barnes and Noble’s Nook eReader. (I reviewed the older Nook here and here .) It is a very new gadget, but it is now filled, almost exclusively, with very old books. A recent article in the New York Times argued that the tea-party movement is, to some extent, inspired by “long-ago texts” and “long-dormant
The Free Market 30, no. 1 (January 2012) There will always be a 1%. The well-being of the 99% depends on who makes up the 1%: entrepreneurs or the state and its cronies. This in turn depends on the ideologies adopted by the 99%. “We are the 99%!” This slogan of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has been called the most memorable quote of the
What is the Mises Institute?
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.