1. Background and location

2. Views espoused by founders and organization scholars
    Forms of government  American Civil War and the Confederacy 

3. Criticisms

4. Publications, conferences, activities and awards
    Notable scholars 

5. See also

6. References

7. External links

The Mises Institute,^[4] short name for Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, is a tax-exempt educative organization located in Auburn, Alabama, United States.^[5] It is named after Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) because it promotes teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics and misesian views on social and political philosophy.^[6]

The Mises Institute was founded in 1982 by Lew Rockwell, Burton Blumert, and Murray Rothbard, following a split between the Cato Institute and Rothbard, who had been one of the founders of the Cato Institute.^[7] Additional backing for the founding of the Institute came from Mises's wife, Margit von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, Lawrence Fertig, and Nobel Economics Laureate Friedrich Hayek.^[8][9] Through its publications, the Institute promotes libertarian, paleolibertarian and anarcho-capitalist political theories and a form of heterodox economics known as praxeology ("the logic of action").^[10][11]

Background and location

Further information: Split among the contemporary Austrian School

The Ludwig von Mises Institute was established in 1982 in the wake of a dispute which occurred in the early 1980s between Murray Rothbard and the Cato Institute, another libertarian organization co-founded by Rothbard.^[12][13] Llewellyn Rockwell has stated that the Mises Institute met strong opposition from parties affiliated with the Koch family, Rothbard's former backers at Cato.^[14][15] Rothbard was the Mises Institute's vice president and head of academic programs until his death in 1995.^[16]

The Institute states that its founding ambition is to be "the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics".^[17] It has reprinted works by Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, and others. It presents the annual "Austrian Economics Research Conference" (AERC) and "Mises University", at which Austrian School thinkers meet, and Institute personnel teach and advise students, respectively. The Institute reports that its library holds nearly 35,000 volumes, including Rothbard's personal library.^[18]

Early after its founding, the Mises Institute was located at the business department offices of Auburn University, and relocated nearby to its current site in 1998.^[19] According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, the Institute chose its Auburn location for low cost of living and "good ol' Southern hospitality". The article goes on "to make an additional point", that "Southerners have always been distrustful of government," making the South a natural home for the organization's libertarian outlook.^[20] The institute has a staff of 16 Senior Fellows and about 70 adjunct scholars from the United States and other countries.^[21]

Views espoused by founders and organization scholars

In a 2006 article published on the Wall Street Journal's website, Kyle Wingfield credited the Institute for helping make the "Heart of Dixie a wellspring of sensible economic thinking."^[22] Wingfield pointed to the Institute's publication and promotion of the work of Mises and other Austrian economists, who he characterizes as advocating "limited government, lower taxes, stronger private property rights and less business regulation."

Forms of government

The Institute has published works by authors critical of various forms of government, including democracy, which was called coercive,^[23]{{sps|date=March 2019}} incompatible with wealth creation,^[24]{{sps|date=March 2019}} replete with inner contradictions,^[25]{{sps|date=March 2019}} and a system of legalized graft.^[26]{{sps|date=March 2019}} To many of these authors, the distinction lies not in the form of government, but in the degree of liberty individuals in a society actually enjoy.^[23] Lew Rockwell notably said "the best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating thirty percent of their ice cream." ^[27]{{sps|date=March 2019}}

American Civil War and the Confederacy

A 2000 Southern Poverty Law Center "Intelligence Report" categorized the Institute as Neo-Confederate, "devoted to a radical libertarian view of government and economics."^[28]

Criticisms

The Mises Institute has been criticized by some libertarians for the incorporation of paleolibertarian and right-wing cultural views, including the positions taken by some of its leading figures on topics such as race, immigration, and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.^[29][30][31] Often these criticisms affirm that there are aspects of the paleolibertarian ideology that supposedly are at odds with the views of the historical Ludwig von Mises.^[32] In an article written on Institute Chairman Lew Rockwell's website, Jacob Huebert observes that socially liberal libertarians have often accused the Mises Institute of racism. He calls the charges erroneous and argues that they might stem from the support of some Institute scholars for immigration restrictions, its support of Confederate secession, or its uncompromising stand on libertarian issues and property rights.^[33]

In 2003, Chip Berlet of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described the Mises Institute as "a major center promoting libertarian political theory and the Austrian School of free market economics", also noting Rothbard's opposition to child labor laws and the anti-immigrant views of other Institute scholars.^[34] Heidi Beirich, also with the SPLC, describes the Institute as "a hard-right libertarian foundation".^[35]

Publications, conferences, activities and awards

The Mises Institute makes available a large number of books, journal articles, and other writings online, and archives various writings on its website. Its Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics discusses Austrian economics.^[36] It published the Journal of Libertarian Studies from 1977 to 2008.^[37] The Mises Review has been published since 1995, the quarterly review of literature in the social sciences being currently edited by David Gordon.

The Institute presents the annual Schlarbaum Prize for "lifetime defense of liberty", a $10,000 prize given to a public intellectual or scholar. Laureates have included U.S. Congressman Ron Paul and economists Walter Block and Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Other honors include the Murray Rothbard Medal (also won by Block, Hoppe and Paul, as well as by economic historian Gary North), the Ludwig von Mises Entrepreneurship Award, the O.P. Alford III Prize, the Douglas E. French Prize, the Elgin Groseclose Award for money writing, and the Fertig Prize.^[38]

Notable scholars

Noted scholars include:^[39]

• Walter Block – Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist; economics professor at Loyola University New Orleans
• Thomas DiLorenzo – economics professor at Loyola University Maryland
• Sam Francis (1947–2005) – iconoclastic paleoconservative syndicated columnist^[40]
• Paul Gottfried – white supremacist^[41] columnist^[42] Former Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe – philosopher, paleolibertarian, business professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and founder of Property and Freedom Society{{cn|date=November 2018}}
• Jesus Huerta de Soto – Professor of Applied Economics at King Juan Carlos University
• Peter Klein – Professor of Entrepreneurship and Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise at Baylor University^[43]
• Robert P. Murphy – economist, Institute for Energy Research
• Andrew Napolitano – former judge and Fox News pundit
• Gary North – co-founder of Christian Reconstructionism and founder of Institute for Christian economics
• Ron Paul – physician, author, and former politician
• Ralph Raico (1936–2016) – historian and libertarian specializing in European classical liberalism and Austrian economics
• Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) – heterodox economist, paleolibertarian theorist, polemicist, revisionist historian, and founder of anarcho-capitalism
• Joseph Sobran (1946–2010) – journalist, contributor to American Renaissance and lecturer at the Institute for Historical Review^[44]
• Mark Thornton – Austrian School economist^[45]
• Joseph T. Salerno – Academic vice president of the Mises Institute, professor of economics at Pace University, and editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.^[46]
• Thomas Woods – historian, political analyst, and author

See also

• Anarcho-capitalism
• Austrian School
• Murray Rothbard
• Paleolibertarianism
• Right-libertarianism

References

External links

• {{Official website|https://mises.org/}}
• EDIRC listing (provided by RePEc)

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