Mises Institute

While the saying “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” rings true more often than not, to every rule there must be exceptions. One such exception is the Mises Institute. For more than 40 years the Mises Institute has done more than any organization to educate people from across the globe about Mises, Rothbard, and Austrian Economics. Founded by my mentor Lew Rockwell, The Mises Institute has turned what was once considered an obscure economic theory into a powerhouse that continues to inform and inspire aspiring thinkers to this day.

Sunday afternoon, the Mises Institute’s week-long education event Mises University kicks off. And, on Saturday, the final day of the event, Ron Paul Institute (RPI) Executive Director Daniel McAdams will be the event’s penultimate speaker, presenting a lecture titled “Foreign Policy is Welfare for the Rich.” The schedule for the event, the main focus of which is matters related to Austrian economics, looks impressive. For people who cannot attend Mises University, the Mises Institute is making lectures available live online for free for its members and for a fee for anyone else.

Authored by Rafael Acevedo & Luis B. Cirocco via The Mises Institute,

In order to understand the disaster that is unfolding in Venezuela, we need to journey through the most recent century of our history and look at how our institutions have changed over time.

What we will find is that Venezuela once enjoyed relatively high levels of economic freedom, although this occurred under dictatorial regimes.

Submitted by Matthew McCaffrey via The Mises Institute,

Submitted by Jeff Deist via The Mises Institute,

I’d like to speak today about what political correctness is, at least in its modern version, what it is not, and what we might do to fight against it.

To begin, we need to understand that political correctness is not about being nice. It’s not simply a social issue, or a subset of the culture wars.