Ask a socialist critic of capitalism how to define capitalism and you will probably receive an incoherent answer. Defining ...

The free enterprise system within a rule of law is the best engine for prosperity. Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) is recognized by many as its greatest advocate. His name was largely ignored for decades ...

The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the ...

Ludwig von Mises achieved fame for his major theoretical works, Human Action, The Theory of Money and Credit, and Socialism. His works as a policy analyst are less known, but can help guide policy ...

Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1934, there appeared in English one of the most important books on money and inflation penned in the twentieth century, The Theory of Money and Creditby the Austrian ...

In 1944, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises made a passionate defense of free enterprise to a group of business leaders at the California Club in Los Angeles. Seven decades later, the same venue ...

Ludwig von Mises’s majestic magnum opus, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, was published on September 14, 1949. In the nearly seven decades since its appearance, Human Action has come to be ...

Some great economic observations and insights from Ludwig von Mises’s lecture for the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia on March 30, 1945: The inequality of income and ...

Today, we honor the memory of the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who was born on this date in 1881. Mises championed free market economics at a time when socialist delusions ran rampant.

The Ludwig von Mises Institute , often referred to as the Mises Institute, is a tax-exempt libertarian organization located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. It is named for Austrian School economist ...