ANNUAL REPORT 2019
CONTENTS Chairman’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Our Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Our Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Mises Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Research Fellows Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Mises University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Mises Institute Seminars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Mises Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Media Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Social Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Books and Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Ward and Massey Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Mises Bookstore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Our Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 From Our Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Society and Club Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Financials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Board of Directors | Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Senior Fellows | Fellows | Associated Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Message from the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2020 Coming Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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CHAIRMAN’S REPORT Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. When I founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 1982, his widow Margit von Mises was enthusiastically on board. I faced a challenge and a heavy responsibility. How could I promote the free-market ideas of Ludwig von Mises in a way that would satisfy her demanding standards? Fortunately, this question was easy to answer. When I told the great economist and historian Murray Rothbard about the new institute, he clapped his hands with glee and agreed to serve as our academic vice president. Nothing could have delighted me more. Ludwig von Mises had the highest regard for Murray. He called Murray’s great treatise, Man, Economy, and State, “an epochal contribution to the general science of human action, praxeology, and its practically most important and, up to now, best-elaborated part, economics.” I realized that the way to advance Mises’s economics was to take Rothbard as our guide. It’s easy to see why Mises esteemed Murray as his great student and successor. Murray’s knowledge was phenomenal. He could instantly call to mind references in economics, history, philosophy, political theory, and a myriad of other subjects as well. I have never met anyone who could match him. His conversation was effervescent, bursting with humor and insight. Murray was no ivory tower scholar, though. He was totally devoted to liberty and hated the predatory state. He wanted to restore the gold standard, end the Fed, and return to our traditional non-interventionist foreign policy. If this reminds you of Ron Paul, that is no coincidence. He and Ron were close friends, and he inspired the Ron Paul movement.
2019
In economics, he favored the free market without compromise, and this is what we teach our students at the Mises Institute, in our Mises University, Rothbard Graduate Seminar, and our other programs. We are beginning a new program this year that would have delighted Murray. We are offering an MA in Austrian economics. Our amazing and wonderful donors make all of this possible, and we thank you.
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OUR MISSION The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Founded in 1982 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., with the blessing and aid of Margit von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, Henry Hazlitt, and Ron Paul, the Institute seeks a free-market capitalist economy and a private property order that rejects taxation, monetary debasement, and a coercive state monopoly of protective services. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, the Institute works with students and scholars from many countries, and reaches out to business leaders, professionals, and everyone else interested in our mission.
OUR PRINCIPLES Mises and Rothbard developed praxeology, a deductive science of human action based on premises known with certainty to be true, and this is what we teach and advocate. Our scholarly work is founded in Misesian praxeology, and in self-conscious opposition to the mathematical modeling and hypothesistesting that has created so much confusion in neoclassical economics. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.
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Building the next generation of scholars...
Research Fellows come to the Mises Institute to work on their PhD research and write books and scholarly articles. They work closely with our Academic Vice President Joe Salerno, who has been teaching economics for decades and mentoring students in our academic programs for over twenty years. Many former Research Fellows now hold teaching positions at universities throughout the world. The program helps students build an international professional network with Austrian scholars.
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Research Fellows Program
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UNIVERSITY 1986 167
Since 1986, Mises University has been the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics. It is the essential training ground for student economists who are looking beyond the mainstream. Number of students in attendance at 2019 Mises University. Through the generosity of Mises Institute Supporters, there is no registration fee at Mises University for students who are accepted.
94
Number of colleges and universities represented.
67
Number of courses offered. The curriculum presents economic foundations, and more than fifty elective classes explore the entire range of economics, from the beginning to the advanced levels.
26
Number of US states represented.
25
Number of countries represented.
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AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS RESEARCH CONFERENCE MISES INSTITUTE Our Annual Professional Conference for Scholars We hosted the Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Institute this year as dozens of faculty members, graduate students, and researchers came together to share their research, present new books and papers, and help each other in advancing their careers as Austrian economists and scholars of freedom and free markets. Special thanks to our AERC sponsors: Yousif Almoayyed, The Lou Church Foundation, Hunter Lewis, Greg and Joy Morin, Steve and Cassandra Torello, and Don Printz. Audio and video of this event is available at mises.org/AERC19 8 | MISES INSTITUTE
2019 ROTHBARD GRADUATE SEMINAR
MISES INSTITUTE SPONSORED BY ALICE J. LILLIE Since its inception, the RGS has been a vital program in developing scholars grounded in the Misesian-Rothbardian tradition. This week-long program, in the style of a classic “great book seminar,” offers intensive study of core Austrian treatises and applies them to contemporary research in related fields. This year’s seminar was dedicated to Man, Economy, and State, and featured eighteen graduate students and one Member Observer. The faculty included Joseph Salerno, David Gordon, Jeffrey Herbener, Guido Hülsmann, Peter Klein, Mark Thornton, and Patrick Newman. Photos of this event are available at mises.org/RGS19 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 9
RECLAMATION OF LIBERTIES: REVISITING THE WAR ON DRUGS
THE REAL STATE LIBERTARIAN OF THE UNION SCHOLARS ORLANDO, FL CONFERENCE
AUBURN, AL
We returned to a sold-out crowd at the University of Central Florida again this year. Robert Murphy, Jeff Deist, radio host David Gornoski, and Praxis apprentice Lena Wang offered analysis on the current economic and political climate in the US. The audience enjoyed a lively Q&A discussion.
SPONSORED BY YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY AND THE MISES INSTITUTE The Mises Institute partnered with Young Americans for Liberty for a free day-long event at the Institute’s campus. Topics included the economics of prohibition, the history of the war on drugs, and the politics of decentralization. Speakers included Mark Thornton, Chris Calton, and Tho Bishop.
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NEW YORK CITY, NY SPONSORED BY HALIS FAMILY FOUNDATION, NATHAN AND ANNA BOND, AND ALICE J. LILLIE The Libertarian Scholars Conference was originally conceived as a forum for scholars from different disciplines to meet and exchange ideas on the study of liberty. The goal was to integrate their diverse insights and approaches into a broad interdisciplinary perspective on liberty. The Mises Institute revived the Libertarian Scholars Conference, which took place in New York City, the site of the first conference.
WHY AMERICAN SUPPORTERS DEMOCRACY SUMMIT LOS ANGELES, CA FAILS
SYMPOSIUM WITH RON PAUL
SEATTLE, WA
LAKE JACKSON, TX
SPONSORED BY THE HARVEY ALLISON FAMILY The topic was mass democracy. Our speakers applied Hans Hoppe’s critique of the cult of democracy from his book Democracy: The God that Failed to the 2020 presidential election. We discussed the limits of democracy in a country of 320 million people and have we reached the end of the myth of democratic consensus? And what might the future of democracy look like? Speakers included Darren Nelson, Bob Murphy, Ilana Mercer, and Jeff Deist.
SPONSORED BY GARY AND NINA TURPANJIAN Seventy-five years ago, in October 1944, Ludwig von Mises addressed a select group of business leaders at The California Club in Los Angeles. We returned to the same historic venue to celebrate Mises as a supremely vital thinker wellsuited for today’s challenges. The world needs his voice more than ever. Hosted by Lew Rockwell and Jeff Deist, speakers included Tom Woods, Paul Cantor, Peter Klein, David Gordon, Michael Boldin, and Patrick Newman.
SPONSORED BY CHRISTOPHER CONDON We focused on state propaganda and its role in the 2020 election. Hundreds gathered to hear Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, Jeff Deist, Scott Horton, and Daniel McAdams explore propaganda in the context of the upcoming 2020 presidential election. The students who attended especially enjoyed meeting a few of their heroes.
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MISES ONLINE One of the most high-traffic economics and commentary sites on the web, mises.org is a powerful tool for reaching students, faculty, and the overall public. Every year, millions of online users visit mises.org for our articles and commentary, free digital books, online courses, academic journals, audiobooks, streaming audio and video, and bookstore offerings. In 2019, we published more than 1,300 articles on our online publication Mises Wire — also delivered via email to over 30,000 readers daily. We posted dozens of new audio interviews and lectures, published five new audiobooks, and produced our most popular podcast: Human Action Podcast with Jeff Deist. These features, intended for the public, are accompanied by our scholarly publications, including the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, new academic books, and live and archived video and audio from our academic events, including the Austrian Economics Research Conference and Mises University. Our website remains central to making Austrian economics available worldwide as a repository of the full texts of hundreds of books and articles by leading Austrian economists such as Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. The site is also key in reaching new audiences and younger demographic groups. In 2019, for example, 44 percent of our online readership was under age thirty-five. In addition, in 2019 nearly 52 percent of all sessions occurred via mobile device or tablet. Overall, there were 6,001,160 total users on mises.org in 2019 (a 28 percent increase from 2018), and 9,519,339 total sessions (a 15 percent increase) — each visit to the site can include visits to multiple articles.
2019 AT A GLANCE
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Our daily emails are read by people in over 64 countries. Now, that is global presence.
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MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS Hans-Hermann Hoppe was interviewed on the Austrian talk show Hangar 7 on the subject of Brexit and the future of the EU.
Patrick Newman’s Op-Ed “Many Reasons to Wield a Trust Buster Sword” was published in the Wall Street Journal.
Mark Thornton was interviewed on the Glenn Beck Program about The Skyscraper Curse. He was also interviewed by Apple Daily, and quoted in the New York Post. His work on prohibition was featured in a BBC Series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy.
Walter Block’s Op-Ed “Bad Capitalism and Good Socialism” was published in the Wall Street Journal. He also had an article published in the New York Times
Arkadiusz Sieroń’s article “Gold During Global Monetary Ease” was published by Yahoo! Finance.
SOCIAL MEDIA In recent years, the growing censorship from large tech companies and changes in their platform functionality required the Mises Institute to modify our approach to social media. This included utilizing alternative platforms, such as the video site Bitchute, as a secondary option to YouTube. Already we’ve seen certain videos on YouTube flagged for “controversial content” such as commentary critical of government wars. Going forward, we will continue to utilize large social platforms as a way to reach and expand our base, while at the same time encouraging consumers not to rely solely upon these channels for Institute information. We have made major strides, increasing our online circulation, expanding our offerings of podcasts, and maintaining normalized posting schedules so viewers of mises.org know what times of the day to expect new content. Lastly, since a key part of our mission is to reach students and the next generation, we have focused on providing unique social media content on the one platform that continues to see significant growth among younger demographics — Instagram. Although, as part of the Facebook umbrella, Instagram is not immune from the dangers mentioned above, its focus on in-app visual content has allowed it to avoid some of the restrictions placed on link aggregators. The Mises Institute continues to be one of the leading Instagram accounts among organizations promoting economic education and libertarian content.
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PUBLICATIONS The Austrian, published six times a year, continues to focus on the trendsetters within the Austrian and libertarian spheres. This year Carmen Dorobăț, David Gordon, Patrick Newman, Paul Cantor, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, and Per Bylund were featured in interesting and insightful interviews.
One aspect of Murray Rothbard’s genius was his writing as an American historian. He was every bit as significant a scholar here as he was as an economist and philosopher. An example is his stunning four-volume history of early America from Jamestown to the end of the American Revolutionary War. Conceived in Liberty, volume 5, lost for decades, completes Murray’s great work, as relevant as the day he finished it.
In the fall, the Journal of Libertarian Studies was restarted after a tenyear hiatus, with David Gordon at the helm as editor. The first issue contains seven full-length articles that reflect the founding vision of Murray Rothbard, with a range of subjects: economics, the history of political thought, legal theory, and philosophy. For the time being, the journal will be an annual publication.
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics continues to break ground with articles that expand the development of Austrian economics and the analysis of contemporary issues in the mainstream of economics from an Austrian perspective. In 2019, the journal published twenty-seven articles and fifteen book reviews. We published four mini-books in 2019!
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Our special collections are available for visitors, Fellows, and researchers and provide excellent resources for any scholar. Internet access offers a valuable opportunity for our Members to search the in-house collection of books, first editions, and ephemera. The Mises Institute maintains the archives of Dr. and Mrs. Ludwig von Mises, Dr. and Mrs. Murray N. Rothbard, Bettina Bien Greaves, and a host of other respected Austrian economists.
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OUR ALUMNI Jeffrey Herbener was awarded the Lawrence W. Fertig Award at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference for his contribution on “Time and the Theory of Cost” to the book The Economic Theory of Costs edited by Matthew McCaffrey. The award carries a $1,500 honorarium. Mark Thornton was awarded the O.P. Alford III Award at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference for his paper “Incorporating Cantillon: A Face and a Family for the First Modern Economist?” published in the Huntington Library Quarterly. The award carries a $1,500 honorarium. Mark was also invited to speak at Tulane University Law School. Nicholas Cooper, former Mises Institute Research Fellow and PhD candidate at George Mason University was awarded the Grant Aldrich Prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference, titled “Reinterpreting the Historical Episode of the Bank of Amsterdam.” The prize carries a $1,000 honorarium.
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At Mises University 2019 there were three top finalists for the final oral exam, the Mündliche Prüfung, which is an optional exam for students who would like to have their knowledge tested at the end of the conference. Top three finalists were: FIRST: Douglas E. French Prize of $2,500 Christian Mullins, PhD candidate George Mason University SECOND: Grant Aldrich Prize of $1,000 Vytautas Žukauskas, Mises Institute Research Fellow, Lithuanian Free Market Institute and PhD candidate University of Angers THIRD: Grant Aldrich Prize of $500 Antón Chamberlin, MA candidate, Troy University Sandra Klein of Baylor University, former Mises Institute Research Fellow, has been named a Fellow of the Mises Institute.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Mises Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow, received the Roland Baader Award at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, Austria, at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the publication of Mises’s Human Action.
Patrick Newman, Mises Fellow, was awarded the George F. Koether Free-Market Writing Award for his outstanding transcription and editing of Murray Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty, volume 5. The award was presented at the 2019 Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Los Angeles and carried an inscribed medallion and $2,500 honorarium.
Łukasz Dominiak of Nicolas Copernicus University has been named a Fellow of the Mises Institute.
Shawn Ritenour, Mises Senior Fellow, gave the 2019 BB&T Lecture at Troy University, “Economics and Christianity: Is There a Conflict?”
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our mission. In 2019 our operating surplus was larger than usual due to several large estate gifts.
Our donors are our shareholders. We strive to act as a fiduciary and sound steward of donor funds, spending them as carefully as a for-profit business would. We maintain rigorous internal accounting standards, and work closely with our audit committee and outside advisors to ensure sound financial management.
We maintain a healthy, debt-free balance sheet to ensure continued operations under any kind of future financial crisis. Our assets consist of working capital; unencumbered real estate and buildings comprising our campus in Auburn, Alabama; our library collections; and investments in precious metals and various stock/bond funds with low volatility.
Our goal every year is to achieve some operating surplus, but not at the expense of vigorously pursuing
The information below represents unaudited 2019 financial data.
92%
FY2019 OPERATING REVENUE Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,511,049
CONTRIBUTIONS
3%
Book Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $297,553
BOOK SALES
Program Service Revenue . . . . . . $198,019 Other Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . $349,023
TOTAL $10,355,644
OPERATING REVENUE
3%
OTHER INCOME
2%
PROGRAM SERVICE REVENUE
FY2019 OPERATING EXPENSES Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,338,911 Management & General . . . . . . . $433,489 Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . $592,723
76%
TOTAL $4,365,123
PROGRAMS
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES Current Assets . . . . . . . . . . . $2,575,820 Fixed Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,171,752 Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,153,041 Other Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $476,844 Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $(419,165)
OPERATING EXPENSES
14%
DEVELOPMENT
10%
MANAGEMENT AND GENERAL
NET ASSETS $28,958,292
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Board of Directors DANIEL AJAMIAN
HUNTER LEWIS
DEBORAH AYERS
ROBERT LUDDY
STEVEN BERGER
THE HON. ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO
Anthem Management Group LLC Sarasota, Florida
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Officers RON PAUL, MD
Ron Paul Institute and Mises Institute Distinguished Counselor
DON PRINTZ, MD
JEFF DEIST
LLEWELLYN ROCKWELL, JR.
PATRICIA BARNETT
JEFF DEIST
Mises Institute Mises Institute
Founder and Chairman President
PATRICIA BARNETT
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Executive Vice President
Fox News and Mises Institute Distinguished Scholar in Law and Jurisprudence
LLEWELLYN ROCKWELL, JR.
WALTER BLOCK
JEFFREY M. HERBENER
JESÚS HUERTA DE SOTO
YURI N. MALTSEV
PASCAL SALIN
THOMAS J. DILORENZO
ROBERT HIGGS
JÖRG GUIDO HÜLSMANN
ROBERT P. MURPHY
TIMOTHY TERRELL
ROGER W. GARRISON
HANS-HERMANN HOPPE
WILLIAM POOLE
MARK THORNTON
THE HON. JOHN V. DENSON
Samford and Denson LLP and Mises Institute Senior Fellow
JOSEPH T. SALERNO
Mises Institute
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DAVID GORDON Mises Institute
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PETER G. KLEIN
Baylor University and Mises Institute Carl Menger Research Fellow
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SHAWN RITENOUR
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Mises Institute and Auburn University
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SANDRA KLEIN
ROBERTA A. MODUGNO
Frostburg State University
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PER BYLUND
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Troy University
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FRANK VAN DUN
GEORGE BITTLINGMAYER
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PETER KERR
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RICHARD VEDDER
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GENE EPSTEIN
JOHN BRÄTLAND
NICOLAI J. FOSS
BRENDAN BROWN
LOWELL E. GALLAWAY
Arizona State University US Department of the Interior Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International
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The Soho Forum
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ANTHONY GILL
University of Washington
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Faulkner University Southeast Missouri State University
DONALD W. LIVINGSTON
Texas Tech University
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National Center for Policy Analysis
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XAVIER MÉRA
University Rennes 2
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PARTH J. SHAH
Centre for Civil Society
FRANK SHOSTAK
Applied Austrian School Economics
Mises Institute – Romania Universiteit Gent
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HARRY C. VERYSER
University of Detroit Mercy
CHRISTOPHER WESTLEY
Florida Gulf Coast University
JAMES YOHE
Gadsden State Community College
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Jeff Deist Our namesake Ludwig von Mises envisioned creating a truly “liberal institute” in the United States, to teach graduate students what their universities had not: the foundations of real economics and the philosophy of a free society. He understood, more than half a century ago, how colleges had become “nurseries of socialism” rather than institutions of truth and learning. He hoped to build such an organization at the University of Chicago with a benefactor named Frederick Nymeyer; later his former student Hans Sennholz would attempt to create a similar Austro-liberal program at Grove City College But neither came to fruition during Mises’s lifetime. This unfulfilled mission was precisely why Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr., Margit von Mises, and Dr. Murray Rothbard founded the Mises Institute in the early 1980s. Their goal was to carry out Mises’s vision and create a world-class program of instruction in economic theory and the scholarship of (real) liberalism. The Mises Institute was created to be a new school, an alternative school, and a graduate school of economics focused on the Austrian masters so woefully disregarded by supposedly mainstream academic programs. Fast forward to 2019, and Mises’s dream of a truly liberal and fully Austrian institute is a reality here at our campus in Auburn. Over thirty-seven years the Mises Institute has become the worldwide epicenter for Austrian economics, teaching people from all over the globe and all walks of life about real economics, sound money, and peace. Our incredible physical library, along with the vast digital archives of books, articles, and videos available at mises.org, make us the world’s leading resource for Austrian and libertarian literature. Our academic conferences, summer Mises University, and regional events across the country all serve the purpose of educating professional and lay audiences in Austrian theory. And in fall 2020 our online Mises Academy will fold into a new, full-fledged graduate program in economics. For the first time ever, students will
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