The Dupes of War: Mises on Statism, Propaganda, and Foreign Conflict
Mark Thornton warns that war propaganda turns citizens into dupes. Ludwig von Mises’s critique of statism explains why foreign conflicts keep returning.
20 hours ago•
2
Mises Institute - Latest News Tracking & Analysis
Latest News Politics , Business , Finance , Technology , World News & Opinion & Tracking & Analysis.
United States of America
Website
🇺🇸 english
Unknown
Mises Institute
Primary focus: Unknown
Recent Reportage
Latest coverage from Mises InstituteCarl Menger, Crown Prince Rudolf, and the Marginal Revolution That Never Was
Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, served as the tutor for Austrian-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph. But Rudolph’s untimely death in 1889 would end up changing the ruling dynamics of pre-World War I Central Europe.
21 hours ago•
2
Poland: For Now It’s Still a Paper Tiger
Since abandoning socialism 30 years ago, Poland’s economy has grown, as one would expect with a market economy. However, there could be more economic freedom there that easily would translate into a booming economy.
21 hours ago•
1
Publishing Activity
Daily article output trendThree Myths of American Healthcare
Ryan McMaken dismantles three persistent myths of American healthcare before tracing the origins of social insurance to Bismarck's deliberate scheme to bind citizens to the state by the chains of gratitude and closing with Mises' 1944 prediction that a population half-dependent on government healthcare would never vote to dismantle it.
1 day ago•
1
Old Fogies Don’t Die Soon Enough
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes apart Yale law professor Samuel Moyn’s screed against people living longer than Moyn thinks appropriate.
1 day ago•
1
The Market Miracle
The free market facilitates mutually-beneficial exchanges that create wealth where it would not otherwise exist, but the market miracle can only exist under certain conditions.
1 day ago•
1
The Depression of 1784: Revolutionary Inflation and Post-Revolution Depression
Intervention begets intervention. This was the case following the American Revolution, as the consequences of inflation, credit expansion, and wartime disruptions set up for the depression of 1784 in peacetime.
1 day ago
Praxeology within a Physics of the Social Sciences
Austrian economics does not share the same methodology as we see in the economics mainstream. The Austrian emphasis on praxeology provides a better explanation of economic events than does the mathematically-bound mainstream.
2 days ago
Books for Students. T-Shirt for You!
Support Mises University 2026 by helping students take home Austrian classics and get the special edition 40th anniversary t-shirt.
2 days ago•
1
How Adam Smith Helped Create Modern Unionism
While Adam Smith is celebrated in some circles as the “Father of Free-Market Economics” (Austrians would disagree), his writings on the “disadvantages” of the worker misleading.
2 days ago