 Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, Auburn, Alabama The Ludwig von Mises Institute (LvMI), based in Auburn, Alabama, is a libertarian academic organisation engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy. It generally advances a view of government and economics expressed by Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises. The Institute is funded entirely through private donations. Image File history File links Portrait commissioned by the Mises Institute of the Institute grounds/facilities. ...
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See also Libertarianism and Libertarian Party Libertarian,is a term for person who has made a conscious and principled commitment, evidenced by a statement or Pledge, to forswear violating others rights and usually living in voluntary communities: thus in law no longer subject to government supervision. ...
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Political economy was the original term for the study of production, the acts of buying and selling, and their relationships to laws, customs and government. ...
The Austrian School is a school of economic thought that rejects economists overreliance on methods used in natural science for the study of human action, and instead bases its formalism on a logic of action known as praxeology. ...
Ludwig von Mises Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (September 29, 1881 – October 10, 1973) was a notable economist and a major influence on the modern libertarian movement. ...
Background
The Ludwig von Mises Institute was established in 1982 under the direction of Margit von Mises, widow of Ludwig von Mises, who chaired its board until her death in 1993. The founder and current president is Llewellyn Rockwell Jr. Murray Rothbard was a major influence on the institute's activities and served as its vice president until his death in 1995.[1] Llewellyn Rockwell, more commonly known as Lew Rockwell, is a paleolibertarian political commentator and economist in the United States. ...
Murray Newton Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism. ...
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Libertarianism is a political philosophy[1] advocating that individuals should be free to do whatever they wish with their person or property, as long as they do not infringe on the same liberty of others. ...
Agorism is a radical left-libertarian political philosophy popularized by Samuel Edward Konkin III, who defined an agorist as a conscious practitioner of counter-economics (peaceful black markets and grey markets). ...
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Historically, the term libertarianism was first coined by leftist followers of Mikhail Bakunin to describe their own, anti-statist version of socialism, as contrasted with the state socialism propounded by Karl Marx. ...
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The Austrian School is a school of economic thought that rejects economists overreliance on methods used in natural science for the study of human action, and instead bases its formalism on a logic of action known as praxeology. ...
Anarchism is the name for both a political philosophy and political movement, derived from the Greek αναÏχία (without archons or without rulers). Thus anarchism, in its most general meaning, is the belief that all forms of domination, coersion, and rulership are undesirable and should be abolished. ...
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The non-aggression principle (also called the non-aggression axiom, anticoercion principle, or zero aggression principle) is a deontological ethical stance associated with the libertarian movement. ...
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The Austrian School of economics and the Chicago School of economics are important foundations of the economic system favored by modern libertarians —capitalism, where the means of production are privately owned, economic and financial decisions are made privately rather than by state control, and goods and services are exchanged in...
Libertarians and Objectivists limit what they define as rights to variations on the right to be left alone, and argue that other rights such as the right to a good education or the right to have free access to water are not legitimate rights and do not deserve the same...
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Mission and activities The Mises Institute's stated goal is to undermine statism in all its forms. Its methodology is based on praxeology, a description of individual human action which seeks to avoid errors in scientific behavioral observation that could be induced by human self-consciousness and complexity. The institute's economic theories depict any government intervention as destructive, whether through welfare, inflation, taxation, regulation, or war. LvMI disparages both communism and the American System school of economics (more broadly the American School). Praxeology is the science of human action. ...
Welfare is financial assistance paid by the government to certain entities or groups of people who are unable to support themselves alone, or are perceived by the government to be able to function more effectively with financial assistance. ...
The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. ...
This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ...
The Monkey System or Every One For Himself Henry Clay says Walk in and see the new improved original grand American System! The cages are labeled: Home, Consumption, Internal, Improv. This 1831 cartoon ridiculing Clays American System depicts monkeys, labeled as being different parts of a nations economy...
The American School also known as National System in politics, policy and philosophy represents three different yet related things. ...
 Jörg Guido Hülsmann speaking to a group of students at the Mises Institute. With 250 academic faculty members and thousands of donors (reportedly in 50 states and 64 countries), the Mises Institute has sponsored hundreds of teaching and scholars' conferences and seminars treating subjects ranging from monetary policy to the history of war. The institute has published several books, hundreds of scholarly papers and thousands of mainstream articles covering economic and historical issues. The Mises Institute publishes two quarterly scholarly journals, the Journal of Libertarian Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Image File history File linksMetadata Lvmi-hulsmannlecture. ...
Jörg Guido Hülsmann Jörg Guido Hülsmann is a German economist of the Austrian School who was heavily influenced by Ludwig von Mises. ...
The Journal of Libertarian Studies is a scholarly journal published quarterly by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ...
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is a scholarly, refereed journal published quarterly by Transaction Periodicals Consortium and the Mises Institute. ...
The Mises Institute website went online in 1995 and is offered as an open-access research tool. The institute has also produced several documentary films, including Liberty and Economics: The Ludwig von Mises Legacy, The Future of Austrian Economics and Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve.
 The Hogan Amphitheater at the Mises Institute LvMI takes a critical view of most US government activities, foreign and domestic, throughout American history. The institute characterizes itself as libertarian and expresses antiwar and anti-interventionist positions on American foreign policy, asserting that war is a violation of any rights to life, liberty and property with destructive effects on the market economy and empowering aspects for government. The Mises Institute website offers content which expresses support of individualism and is explicitly critical of collectivism, fascism, socialism, and communism. Image File history File links Lvmi-amphitheater. ...
See also Libertarianism and Libertarian Party Libertarian,is a term for person who has made a conscious and principled commitment, evidenced by a statement or Pledge, to forswear violating others rights and usually living in voluntary communities: thus in law no longer subject to government supervision. ...
An example of an essay published by the Mises Institute is Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, which claims democracy is inferior to the voluntary rule of "natural elites" and questions any notion of rule by the "people" as based on flawed assumptions of "the presumed decency of the 'common man.'" Hoppe condemns state intervention through "affirmative action" and "forced integration" initiatives, which he claims have been "responsible for the almost complete destruction of private property rights, and the erosion of freedom of contract, association, and disassociation." [2] Hans-Hermann Hoppe Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born September 2, 1949) is an Austrian school economist, an anarcho-capitalist (libertarian) philosopher, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. ...
 Photograph of the Mises Institute façade. The website offers a section of articles by the late Murray N. Rothbard, who wrote, "Egalitarian measures do not 'work' because they violate the basic nature of man, of what it means for the individual man to be truly human. The call of 'equality' is a siren song that can only mean the destruction of all that we cherish as being human." Rothbard argued "It is in the name of equality that the Left seeks all manner of measures, from progressive taxation to the ultimate stage of communism."[3] Image File history File links Lvmi-front. ...
West façade of the Notre-Dame de Strasbourg Cathedral A facade (or façade) is the exterior of a building – especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. ...
The Mises Review commented favorably on anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow's book Alien Nation, citing his argument that "past immigrants came mainly from Europe; in 1950 the U.S. population was about 90% white. If whites from Southern and Eastern Europe did manage, with substantial difficulty, to become absorbed into the majority culture by the 1960s, does it follow that vast numbers from Asia, Latin America, and Africa can do so as well? Brimelow thinks not: he fears that the growth of racial enclaves will polarize the United States."[4] However some LvMI scholars are pro-immigration (including Walter Block [5] [6]) and vol. 13, no. 2, of the institute's Journal of Libertarian Studies contained a symposium presenting diverse views on the immigration issue.[7] Peter Brimelow Peter Brimelow is a British-American financial journalist. ...
Walter Block Walter Block (born 1941) is a leading Austrian School economist. ...
The Journal of Libertarian Studies is a scholarly journal published quarterly by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ...
Historical views LvMI's publications have, like abolitionist Lysander Spooner, been supportive of the Confederacy's attempted secession (or more accurately, the right to secede), which precipitated the American Civil War. They have also been highly critical of Abraham Lincoln's conduct of the war (e.g. suspending Habeas Corpus, jailing those who dissented against the war and against the draft), asserting that his policies contributed to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States. Senior faculty member Thomas DiLorenzo, in his critical biography The Real Lincoln, argues that the 16th president substantially expanded the size and powers of the federal government at the expense of individual liberty. Adjunct faculty member Donald Livingston shares a similar view, blaming Lincoln for the creation of "a French Revolutionary style unitary state" and "centralizing totalitarianism." [8] This article is about the abolition of slavery. ...
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist political philosopher, abolitionist, and legal theorist of the 19th century. ...
Motto: Deo Vindice (Latin: With God As Our Vindicator) Anthem: God Save the South (unofficial) Dixie (popular) The Bonnie Blue Flag (popular) Capital Montgomery, Alabama February 4, 1861–May 29, 1861 Richmond, Virginia May 29, 1861–April 9, 1865 Danville, Virginia April 3–April 10, 1865 Largest city New Orleans...
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Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederate) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties Killed in action: 110,000 Total dead: 360,000 Wounded: 275,200 Killed in action: 93,000 Total dead: 258...
For other uses of the name Abraham Lincoln, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation) Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president...
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo is an economics professor at Loyola College in Maryland and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. ...
The Real Lincoln is a biography of Abraham Lincoln written by Thomas DiLorenzo in 2002. ...
Donald Livingston is an American philosophy professor based at Emory University with an expertise in the writings of David Hume. ...
Liberty Leading the People, a painting by Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 but which has come to be generally accepted as symbolic of French popular uprisings against the monarchy in general and the French Revolution in particular. ...
LvMI's publications have also maintained that fascism and nazism are branches of socialist political philosophy. They cite the fact that these ideologies are based on collectivist rejections of the individual in favor of some "greater good," and that they incorporate central control over the economy and often also society. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ...
Criticisms
Southern Poverty Law Center The historical views of the Institute and of several people affiliated with it have been interpreted by some critics, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, as sympathetic to the Confederacy. The SPLC has criticized the Institute for its "interest in neo-Confederate themes", which SPLC considers to be a form of racism. SPLC has also criticized the Institute for its connections with the League of the South. [9], [10] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit legal, educational, and intelligence-gathering group for the purposes of advocacy for civil rights and against racism. ...
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An African-American man drinks out of the colored only water cooler at a racially segregated street car terminal in the United States in 1939. ...
A League supporter waves the Confederacys third national flag after the conclusion of a League demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama, fall of 2004. ...
Another SPLC complaint[11] involves an essay[12] on the Mises Institute website by Murray Rothbard. According to an SPLC Intelligence Report article written by Chip Berlet: Murray Newton Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism. ...
John Foster Chip Berlet (born November 22, 1949) is the co-author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort and editor of Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash. ...
- Rothbard blamed much of what he disliked on meddling women. In the mid-1800s, a "legion of Yankee women" who were "not fettered by the responsibilities" of household work "imposed" voting rights for women on the nation. Later, Jewish women, after raising funds from "top Jewish financiers," agitated for child labor laws, Rothbard adds with evident disgust. The "dominant tradition" of all these activist women, he suggests, is lesbianism. [13]
Ludwig von Mises Institute affiliates have denounced the SPLC's allegations: LvMI's Tibor Machan argues that the SPLC's tactics are not aimed at "fighting poverty" as the its name suggests, but rather to create a "major threat against the First Amendment and the presumption of innocence in our criminal justice system" by unfairly labelling organizations with differing political viewpoints.[14] Myles Kantor, also affiliated with LvMI, has asserted the SPLC engages in fear-mongering and smearing of legitimate non-racist groups in pursuit of profitable financial contributions and ideological goals. According to Kantor, the SPLC's labelling tactics include "egregious" and "defamatory" implications that "the Center for the Study of Popular Culture and Mises Institute seek to restore Hitlerian policies."[15]. Tibor R. Machan, professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, holds the Freedom Communications Professorship of Free Enterprise and Business Ethics at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. ...
Claremont Institute On the political right, the Mises Institute has clashed with other libertarian and conservative organizations. The neo-conservative Claremont Institute has sharply different views on issues such as Declarationism and strongly supports Lincoln. The Claremont Institute's Harry V. Jaffa has debated on Lincoln with LvMI's Thomas DiLorenzo and writers from both organizations have sparred in editorial publications [16]. Neoconservatism describes several distinct political ideologies which are considered new forms of conservatism. ...
The Claremont Institute is a conservative think tank based in Claremont, California. ...
Declarationism is a legal philosophy that attempts to incorporate the United States Declaration of Independence into the body of case law on level with the United States Constitution. ...
Harry V. Jaffa is an author, and director of the Claremont Institute, a California-based Conservative think tank. ...
Thomas J. DiLorenzo is an economics professor at Loyola College in Maryland and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. ...
Faculty and administration - Administration
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Lew Rockwell Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ...
Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is the editorial vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a libertarian-conservative think tank that espouses the Austrian School of economics. ...
Walter Block Walter Block (born 1941) is a leading Austrian School economist. ...
Thomas J. DiLorenzo is an economics professor at Loyola College in Maryland and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. ...
David Gordon is one of the original developers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a trainer, author and modeler, who has helped create and shape the field of NLP for almost 30 years. ...
Hans-Hermann Hoppe Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born September 2, 1949) is an Austrian school economist, an anarcho-capitalist (libertarian) philosopher, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. ...
The Journal of Libertarian Studies is a scholarly journal published quarterly by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ...
Roderick Long Roderick Long (born February 4, 1964) is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University and libertarian political commentator. ...
Joseph T. Salerno Joseph T. Salerno is an Austrian School economist in the United States. ...
Dr Mark Thornton is an American economist who adheres to the principles of the Austrian school. ...
Thomas Woods Thomas E. Woods, Jr. ...
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Gene Callahan is an American writer who deals with the subjects of politics and economics. ...
Dr. Richard M. Ebeling (born 1950) is an American libertarian author and president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) based in Irvington-on-Husdon, NY. He has written and edited numerous books, including the three-volume Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises. ...
Williamson M. Evers is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, located at Stanford University. ...
Thomas Fleming is an American writer, president of the Rockford Institute, and editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, a leading paleoconservative political commentary periodical. ...
Paul Gottfried Paul Edward Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient. ...
Otto von Habsburg (as citizen of Germany) or Otto Habsburg-Lothringen (as citizen of Austria), sometimes known as Archduke Otto of Austria (Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix René Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignazius von Habsburg), born November 20, 1912, is the current head of...
Steve H. Hanke is an American economist specializing in international economics, particularly monetary policy. ...
Robert Higgs Robert Higgs (born 1 February 1944) is an American economist who adheres to the tenets of the Austrian School. ...
Jesus Huerta de Soto Jesús Huerta de Soto (born in Madrid, 1956) is an Austrian School economist and Professor of Political Economy at King Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain. ...
Madison Jones (born March 21, 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an award-winning American author, who frequently wrote about the culture of the south, including race relations and the Civil War. ...
N. Stephan Kinsella Norman (N.) Stephan Kinsella (born 1965) is an American intellectual property lawyer and libertarian legal theorist. ...
Israel Meir Kirzner (Yisroel Mayer Kirzner) (born February 13, 1930) is a leading economist in the Austrian School. ...
Donald Livingston is an American philosophy professor based at Emory University with an expertise in the writings of David Hume. ...
Tibor R. Machan, professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, holds the Freedom Communications Professorship of Free Enterprise and Business Ethics at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. ...
Wendy McElroy is a Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist. ...
Robert P. Murphy Robert P. Bob Murphy (born 23 May 1976) is an author and Austrian School economist. ...
Gary North For the bisexual rights activist, see Gary North (journalist) Gary North is a writer and publisher from the Christian Reconstruction movement. ...
Lawrence W. (Larry) Reed, 51, is president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland, Michigan-based research and educational institute. ...
George Reisman is Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University, and author of the massive 1,050-page volume Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (ISBN 0915463733). ...
Morgan Reynolds Morgan Reynolds, Ph. ...
Paul Craig Roberts is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a former assistant secretary of the treasury in the Reagan Administration and a prolific and popular journalist. ...
Pascal Salin (born in 1939) is a French economist, professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine, specialist in public finance, president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 1994 to 1996. ...
Chris Sciabarra is an Objectivist scholar and writer living in New York City. ...
Dr Arthur Seldon CBE (born 1917) is joint founder president, with Ralph Harris, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, where he directed academic affairs for 30 years. ...
Sudha Shenoy is an economist and economic historian of Indian origin. ...
Barry Smith is Julian Park Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the University at Buffalo (New York, USA) and Director of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science in Saarbrücken, Germany. ...
Clyde N. Wilson Clyde N. Wilson is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina, a paleoconservative political commentator, and an occasional contributor to the National Review. ...
Justin Raimondo (born November 18, 1951) is a libertarian/paleoconservative author and the editorial director of the website Antiwar. ...
Murray Newton Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism. ...
Joseph R. Stromberg is a columnist for antiwar. ...
See also The Austrian School is a school of economic thought that rejects economists overreliance on methods used in natural science for the study of human action, and instead bases its formalism on a logic of action known as praxeology. ...
The Journal of Libertarian Studies is a scholarly journal published quarterly by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ...
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is a scholarly, refereed journal published quarterly by Transaction Periodicals Consortium and the Mises Institute. ...
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