The November-December issue of The Austrian , now in mailboxes, is now also available online [PDF]. In this issue, we take a look at whether central bankers can really be trusted to centrally plan the global economy. Also included is the latest book review from David Gordon, and numerous photos from our 35 th Anniversary Gala and from our Fellows
Grove City College will host the fourteenth annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference , February 16-17, 2018. Open to undergraduates and graduate students in any academic discipline, the ASSC will bring together students from colleges and universities across the country and around the world to present their own research papers written in the
As Bitcoin continues to soar to new heights, Washington seems to be preparing to follow countries like Russia and China in preparing to increase their influence on cryptocurrency. Today outgoing New York Federal Reserve head William Dudley revealed that the Federal Reserve is investigating its own “digital currency”, though it would be
The writer known as Bionic Mosquito has helpfully brought to our attention some of the good stuff offered by Murray Rothbard in his articles for Libertarian Forum . Specifically, Mosquito points to Rothbard’s 1969 article promoting the mayoral candidacy of Norman Mailer. Rothbard writes: The Mailer platform stems from one brilliantly penetrating
President Donald Trump has nominated Carnegie Mellon University professor Marvin Goodfriend to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. We reported back in June that Goodfriend was likely to be nominated. As a governor, Goodfriend leaves much to desired. He has criticized the use of QE, but, as Bloomberg notes, Goodfriend thought the
Roy Cordato recently wrote a very good article for the Carolina Journal on the deduction of state and local taxes: Should you ever be taxed on “income” that is not, in any meaningful sense, yours? This is the fundamental question facing Congress in deciding whether to eliminate the deductibility of state income and local property taxes from
Coinbase, the cryptocurrency trading platform, has been ordered by a federal court to turn over information sought by the IRS relating to more than 14,000 of the site’s users. As TechCrunch puts it, the IRS noticed “the number of tax returns claiming gains from virtual currency didn’t line up with the emerging popularity of digital currencies
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision on eminent domain, many pro-centralization libertarians complained that the Supreme Court should have outlawed state and local government authorizations of eminent domain. This was the wrong approach. The correct approach is to support the decentralization of eminent domain powers — and then to
Allen Mendenhall, Associate Dean at Thomas Goode Jones School of Law and Executive Director of the Blackstone & Burke Center for Law & Liberty, introduces Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senior Legal Analyst at Fox News, who delivers the commencement address to the 2017 graduating class of Thomas Goode Jones School of Law and receives an honorary
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives is set to further federalize gun laws and gun regulations. They’re doing it, though, under the guise of what sounds like a harmless bill designed to guarantee property rights: The House is poised to pass a bill that allows concealed carry permit holders from one state to legally carry their guns in any
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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.