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Our 30th Birthday

Over these 30 years, what fun all of us at the Mises Institute have had. And thanks to our donors and scholars, we have been able to do much good. Through teaching, research, conferences, publishing, and the Internet, we have touched the minds and hearts of millions. As a result, the cause is far stronger.

Hegel: The State as God's Will

Armed with Hegelian philosophy, the modern state would take its divinely appointed stand at the height of history and civilization, as God on earth.

Drugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Big Pharma–FDA nexus is just one giant conflict of interest against the general public.

Does Protection Raise Wages?

Is it true that protection, which admittedly makes you pay dearer for everything, and entails a loss on you in this respect, raises your wages?


The Circle Bastiat

Mises.org Quotes: Government Can Be Prevented! Repelling States: Evidence from Upland Southeast Asia
The peoples of the vast Southeast Asian region of Zomia were successful in providing incentives against statecraft--that is, they successfully prevented their own appropriation by external states and successfully prevented local state formation--for ... More »

John P. Cochran: QE Infinity as a Hail Mary
U. S. Monetary Policy, during and since the economic slowdown and financial crisis, has been criticized by non-Austrian economists such as John B. Taylor as a mondustrial policy and as a movement from central banking to central planning by John H. Co ... More »

Daniel J. Sanchez: An Exciting New Appointment
The Ludwig von Mises Institute welcomes its new Executive Director, and inaugural Carl Menger Research Fellow, Peter G. Klein! Lew Rockwell announced the appointment at the Manhattan Mises Circle. Click here for audio, or read the transcri ... More »

John P. Cochran: More Evidence on the Impact Regime Worsening on Slow Recovery
Regime Uncertainty and Slow Recovery Robert Higgs at the Beacon again reminds us that “anemic investment recovery evinces, at least in part, the prevailing regime uncertainty brought about by the Fed’s and the Bush and Obama administrations’ massi ... More »

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Economic Controversies

After Murray Rothbard finished his theoretical magnum opus - Man, Economy, and State - he turned his attention away from pure positive theory toward dealing with the opposition to Austrian theory. The... More »

Economics in One Lesson

Here is a publishing event: the new Mises Institute edition of the classic book that has taught many millions sound economic thinking. It is a hardbound volume, priced very low thanks to special benef... More »

Fiat Money Inflation in France

In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. As John Mackay writes in the foreword, It records ... More »

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Ideas on Liberty: Essays in Honor of Paul L. Poirot

Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics

Principles of Ethics: Anthology

Credit Policies of the Federal Reserve System

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth


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Robert P. Murphy: Lessons for the Young Economist

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This is the textbook Lessons for the Young Economist. View the Teachers Manual to Lessons for the Young Economist here We are beyond mere excitement about Lessons for the Young Economist. It is easily the best introduction to economics for the young reader—because it covers both pure economic theory and also how markets work (the domain of most introductory books). Robert Murphy has the right frame of mind and mastery of the subject matter to provide the best possible pedagogy. The logic ( 3/9/2011 )

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