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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 ...
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).
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thornton's first book, The Economics of Prohibition, was praised by Thornton's supervisor at the Mises Institute, its vice-president Murray Rothbard, who is quoted on the book cover of the 2007 edition as writing: "Thornton's book... arrives to fill an enormous gap, and it does so splendidly...This is an excellent work making an important contribution to scholarship as well as to the public ...
The historical debate was cast between the Austrian School represented by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, who argued against the feasibility of socialism; and between neoclassical and Marxian economists, most notably Cläre Tisch (as a forerunner), Oskar R. Lange, Abba P. Lerner, Fred M. Taylor, Henry Douglas Dickinson and Maurice Dobb ...
Man, Economy, and State: A treatise on economic principles is a 1962 book of Austrian School economics by Murray Rothbard (orig. abridged ed.). [a] It was originally intended as a textbook form of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, but became its own treatise after he realized original work was needed to flesh out Mises' ideas.