Ludwig von Mises Institute
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The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a foundation, based in Auburn, Alabama, dedicated to research on economics and political economy. It subscribes to a libertarian view of government and economics inspired by the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises. The Institute's founder and current president is Llewellyn Rockwell Jr. Murray Rothbard was a major influence on the Institute's activities, and he served as its vice president until his death in 1995.
The Institute's goal is to "undermine statism in all its forms." It opposes both communism and the American System school of economics. The Institute runs various seminars and a comprehensive Web site aimed at teaching about the Austrian School of Economics. In addition, it funds scholarly research in the area of Austrian Economics all over the world through various endowments and fellowships.
In addition to its commentary on Austrian economics, the Institute occasionally criticises Abraham Lincoln, supports a right of secession, and takes a very critical view of all U.S. government activities, foreign and domestic, in American history. Unlike some neoconservative organizations, the paleolibertarian Institute takes a radical antiwar, anti-interventionist stand on American foreign policy, and considers war to be an ultimate violation of rights to life, liberty, and property, for Americans and foreigners, with destructive effects on the market economy and empowering effects for the government.
Citing some mutual affiliations between the Institute and the League of the South, the Southern Poverty Law Center claims the Mises Institute to be a Neo-confederate organization.
Individuals associated with the Mises Institute
- Lew Rockwell, President
- Patricia Barnett, Vice-President
- Jeffrey Tucker, Editorial Vice-President
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Distinguished Fellow
- Mark Thornton
- Thomas DiLorenzo
- Walter Block
- Jeffrey M. Herbener
- Joe Salerno
- David Gordon, Editor, Mises Review
- Roderick Long, Editor, Journal of Libertarian Studies
- Joe Stromberg
- Justin Raimondo
- Gene Callahan
External links
- About the mission, history, activities, and faculty of the Mises Institute (http://www.mises.org/content/about.asp)
- The Ludwig von Mises Institute (http://www.mises.org/)