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Murray N . Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist is written for everyone interested in Rothbard’s economic theory and Austrian economics in general. We hope it will serve as a useful complementary volume to Man, Economy, and State by elucidating Rothbard’s many contributions and the process by which he developed an integrated structure of economic theory using the praxeological method.

After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained

This book has been several years in the making. Originally we envisioned it as a collection of letters and unpublished monographs from the Rothbard Papers at the Mises Institute. It was only in 2020 that we realized that a coherent narrative was needed to organize and bring to life the mass of correspondence and other writings. Over the next several years we wrote the manuscript and revised it as suggestions were made and new archival material was discovered.

In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race

The democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous barriers to housing construction in California.

Original article: https://mises.org/misesian/how-democratic-socialism-created-californias-housing-crisis

The up and down experience with free markets in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain shows that free markets, while undermining the state, do not operate apart from state interference.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/domestic-agorism-eastern-europes-example-libertarianism-without-academic-guidance

For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand neither inequality nor economics.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-much-inequality-there-depends-how-its-measured

On the Declaration's 250th anniversary, Larsen Plyler asks what the document was actually written to do. Taking Justice Clarence Thomas's recent claim that it ranks among the West's great anti-slavery documents as his starting point, Plyler argues that the Declaration's legacy has been shaped less by Jefferson than by Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., who read a later conception of equality and a single unified nation back into it. Returning the text to its context—grievances aimed at the king alone, a closing paragraph declaring thirteen free and independent states—he makes the case for the legacy that got lost.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2026.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Egalitarians assume people would be equal but for oppression or the random hand of luck, and that where injustice can't be shown, luck alone justifies equalizing by force. Joshua Mawhorter turns the presupposition around. Drawing on Rothbard's Egalitarianism: A Revolt Against Nature and Sowell's Discrimination and Disparities, he argues that inequality is the normal condition of a world of scarcity, change, time, and choice; that it is precisely what makes exchange possible; and that the only equality worth defending is equality of liberty under the rule of law.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2026.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Is neoliberalism a real intellectual tradition or just an insult? Tho Bishop argues it is real and precise: a program for a regulated market economy running on technocratically managed, socialized money. He traces it from Henry Simons's 1934 "A Positive Program for Laissez-Faire" into the Mont Pelerin Society—where Mises watched enthusiasm for antitrust and credit expansion take root, and where the vacuum left by Hayek was filled by Chicago rather than by libertarians—and forward through Friedman's career to Greenspan and Bernanke. The Rothbardians, he concludes, have been the only sustained non-socialist opposition.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2026.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.