Join the Mises Circle in Houston, Saturday, January 14 to discuss the future of liberty under expanding government.

Register Here The registration fee is $85 per person and includes lunch. Donations to sponsor student scholarships are welcomed.

Unable to attend? MisesTV will be broadcasting this seminar live from Houston.

This Saturday’s Mises Circle in Houston — featuring Doug French, Bob Murphy, Tom DiLorenzo, and Tom Woods — will be broadcast live on MisesTV. Join us!

This weekend’s Mises Circle in New Orleans — featuring Doug French, Walter Block, Robert Higgs, Tom DiLorenzo, Joseph Salerno, David Gordon and Bill Barnett — will be broadcast live on MisesTV. Join us!

Deadline for applications is February 13, 2012

These are not internships in the regular sense. The Mises Institute permits and expects its Fellows to pursue serious intellectual work under the direct guidance of faculty in residence, including academic vice president Joseph Salerno​. You will develop an expertise in a field that would not be cultivated in a classroom setting, deeply read literature otherwise unavailable, and take advantage of a window of opportunity for serious investigation and reflection. During the typical academic career, such opportunities are extremely rare.

For anyone working in the fields of Austrian economics and libertarian political theory, this combination of intellectual stimulation and social opportunity create the perfect environment for productive academic work. Many former Fellows (such as Robert Murphy and Tom Woods) have become professors and writers and have otherwise ended up having a huge influence in the world of ideas.

See the Residency Fellowship information page for complete details on our summer fellowships and for a link to the application. 

This 3D tour of the conservatory at the Mises Institute was generated by Photopsynth (free Microsoft product) using 123 separate images.

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Hundreds of people around the world are watching the Mises Circle live in Indianapolis streaming live in HD.

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In partnership with Students for a Free Economy, Dr. Richard Ebeling and Dr. Robert Barsky will debate the merits of the gold standard. This debate will be shown LIVE at michigansfe.org and northwood.edu at 7:00 p.m. on March 29, 2011. Viewers can watch the debate as it’s happening live. After the debate has closed, interested individuals can watch the debate at michigansfe.org. Other partner websites may carry the debate, as well. Please join them for what will surely be an interesting event.

Mustafa Akyol presents the 2011 Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics:

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Dear Donors,

As the Fall Semester has just ended, I wanted to take a minute to thank you for all that you’ve done to advance the cause of teaching, research, and public commentary in economics. I use Mises.org just about every day for all three.

I had an interesting experience earlier today when I tried to access the website for some reason or another and got a message reading “HTTP Error 503: The service is unavailable.” That caused me to think about what a massive blow it would be to the cause of freedom if Mises.org ever went down. One thing is certain: I would have to rework my plans for the “Classical & Marxian Political Economy” course I’m teaching this spring as I have selected a number of readings from the free resources that the Institute is able to make available. Also, I finished the first book I’ve read on my new iPad this afternoon. It was Ralph Raico’s Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal. It’s a book I might not have read if it hadn’t been available on Mises.org, and it is definitely going to change the way I teach my Economic History course.

You might also know that I make weekly contributions to Forbes.com here. I honed my craft writing Daily Articles for the Mises Institute, and I am pleased that I am still able to contribute to the Mises Blog a couple of times a week. Some of my articles have been translated into different languages, and some are appearing on the websites of various Mises Institutes that are springing up around the world. Several months ago, I learned that a working paper I had posted on Mises.org entitled “The Market’s Benevolent Tendencies”–which ultimately appeared as a chapter in an edited volume called Business and Religion: A Clash of Civilizations?–has been translated into Farsi.

So if you’re wondering whether you’re making a difference, the answer is “yes.” I hope that is evident in my teaching, research, and writing. There are many more professors like me, and our number grows each year. We are able to do what we do in no small part because of your support, and I just wanted to take a minute to offer my sincere gratitude.

Art Carden
Assistant Professor of Economics and Business
Rhodes College

Austrian Economics: Application on Norwegian Business Cycles by Håkon Bjerkenes, Håkon Kiil, and Paal Anker-Nilssen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)

Join us in Colorado Springs! as The Mises Circle presents The Delusion of Good Government SPONSORED BY PIKE’S PEAK ECONOMICS CLUB You are cordially invited to a meeting of the Mises Circle on Saturday, September 18, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs. Join us for a seminar and luncheon as we address the failures of government planning and urge another path called free enterprise. Registration and Accommodations Price is $85 per person (includes lunch). Student scholarships are available. We’ll also have books available for sale. You may register online at Mises.org, or by phone at 800.636.4737 or 334.321.2100. Accommodations at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort: Call 719.538.4000 before August 18 and mention the Mises Institute for a rate of $139 per night single occupancy or $159 double, plus service charge. Ludwig von Mises Institute 518 West Magnolia Avenue Auburn, Alabama 36832-4501 334.321.2100 800.636.4737

Speakers and Topics: • John P. Cochran Limits of Limited Government Mercantilism, the Unvanquished Foe of Liberty • Douglas E. French The Trouble With Democracy: Maslow Meets Hoppe • Yuri Maltsev Traveling Down the Road to Serfdom: History of Socialism from Marx to Obama • Mark Thornton Prohibition… In Theory and Practice • Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Our Wise Overlords Are Just Here to Serve Us James Fogal, CFP, Director of Development for the Mises Institute will also be available to discuss tax-savings strategies. See http://mises.org/events for speaker information and a complete schedule.

National Economy and Rotary

"Service" is the device of the Rotarian.

In no sphere of human activity can this principle find an application on a larger scale than in economics. Human society being based on a division of labor, the work of individuals is of necessity piecework only. Every human being performs one task only and his activity is limited to a narrow field. Unaided by the work of others he cannot exist.

The manner in which every individual arranges his life presupposes the activity of other members of society in occupations which harmoniously complement his own work and vice versa. If we consciously specialize in one kind of activity, we can do so only because we count upon other individuals being ready to serve us just as we are prepared to serve them. It is here that the great principle of solidarity, which govern society, comes into play.

The principle of solidarity, however, does not lose its force at the frontiers of a country. Economic solidarity does not unite compatriots only, but it ties together all peoples. The European feeds on, and clothes himself in, the products which America, Asia, Africa, and Australia supply, giving in exchange the fruits of his industrial efforts. The present standard of life of all nations is based on the enormous increase of productivity of human work which has been made possible only by an international division of labor.

Interdependence of Countries

These are propositions so simple and self-evident that it seems hardly necessary to mention them. The fact, however, that commercial hostility still exists between nations proves that, in spite of the axiomatic nature of this truth, it is not quite superfluous to restate it. The spirit has not yet died out which regards the prosperity of other nations as a danger to one’s own country, though experience teaches us every day that in view of the close economic interdependence of all countries every single state has a large interest in the prosperity of other states. Any decline of business activity in America makes itself felt in an extraordinarily acute manner all over Europe. When business flourishes in the United States, more European goods are imported there and a larger number of Americans visit Europe with the consequence that business on the continent is brisk. When there is a depression in the United States, there is distress in Europe.

To recognize the need for solidarity in economic life and to affirm it by conscious action is service in the sense in which a Rotarian uses the word.

Here is a nice sell sheet for Klein’s new book.

The Libertarian Review was in print from 1974 through 1980. The copyright holder approved the posting of the complete run and they have been in the database and in our file structure for 10 months. But now the copyright holder has changed policies and insists that the issues come down, and we are complying with that request now.

The uploads have begun.

Mises.org has so many features that it is impossible to highlight them all. One that is often overlooked is the Mises Quote Machine. It is a digital version of Mark Thornton’s wonderful book The Quotatable Mises. It includes the code for embedding random quotes like this. Refresh the page and watch it change.

And more on the way.