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The German Mises Institute (Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland e.V.) is a 2012 founded interest group and think tank of libertarian gold traders and investment advisors, which were associated with Swiss-based German billionaire August von Finck (1930–2021).
The Mises Institute, short name for Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics (LvMI), is a right-libertarian academic organization based in Auburn, Alabama and engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy. Its scholarship is inspired by the work of Austrian School economist Ludwig von ...
It accused von Mises of attacking straw men and having contempt for the facts of human nature, comparing him in that respect to Marxists. [1] Conservative commentator and former Communist Whittaker Chambers published a similarly negative review in the National Review , stating that Mises's thesis that anti-capitalist sentiment was rooted in ...
Daniel J. Mitchell, a Libertarian economist for Foundation for Economic Education, critiques the Political Compass Test for its placement of historical figures and politicians, such as Adolf Hitler being classified on the left side of the horizontal axis and Margaret Thatcher's proximity to Joseph Stalin and Hitler on the vertical axis. He also ...
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American website founded in 2015 by Dave M. Van Zandt. [1] It considers four main categories and multiple subcategories in assessing the "political bias" and "factual reporting" of media outlets, [2] [3] relying on a self-described "combination of objective measures and subjective analysis".
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics is a work by the Austrian economist and philosopher Ludwig von Mises.Widely considered Mises' magnum opus, [1] it presents the case for laissez-faire capitalism based on praxeology, his method to understand the structure of human decision-making.
The Mises Institute was founded in 1982 by Lew Rockwell, Burton Blumert, and Murray Rothbard, [28] following a split between the Cato Institute and Rothbard, who had been one of the founders of the Cato Institute. [29] [non-primary source needed] After Rothbard's death in 1996, Hoppe was a leading anarcho-capitalist figure at the Mises ...
In educational measurement, bias is defined as "Systematic errors in test content, test administration, and/or scoring procedures that can cause some test takers to get either lower or higher scores than their true ability would merit." [16] The source of the bias is irrelevant to the trait the test is intended to measure.