Mises Institute

• How Not to Study the State
  By: Jacob A. Miller My most memorable high school experience occurred on the first day of my senior year. I was sitting in an Advanced Placement US Government class when the teacher posed a simple question to the students. It was a question intended to set the course in motion, and get us fledgling statecraft […]
• Week in Review: May 27, 2017
  By: Mises Institute The Trump administration released its 2018 budget this week. Once again we saw the media try to play up decreases in proposed spending as a form of draconian cuts, ignoring the fact that Trump's plan still reflects a significant increase in federal programs. Rather than trying to decentralize America's bloated welfare state, […]
• Patrick Newman: Rothbard vs. The Progressive Era
  By: Patrick Newman, Jeff Deist More than 20 years after his death, Murray Rothbard continues to publish new books! Our guest Patrick Newman is the editor of a Rothbard manuscript dating to the 1970s entitled Roots of the Modern State, which the Mises Institute will release as a book later this year.Rothbard's topic is the Progressive Era […]
• Federal Bureaucrat to the Public: Be Afraid!
  By: Ryan McMaken States have always thrived on the fear of the taxpayers, and states have always justified their existence in part on the idea that without the state, we'd all be overrun by barbarians, or murdered by our neighbors. Charles Tilly, a historian of the state, frequently noted that the modern state as we […]
• The Eye-Care Industry Wants Big Government to Crush the Competition
  By: Jonathan Lee Big Eye is watching you. For more than a decade, lobbyists from Johnson & Johnson (J&J), which controls over 40 percent of the contact lens market as a result of their cozy relationship with optometrists, and the American Optometric Association (AOA), which represents nearly 40,000 optometrists nationwide, have been fighting to create […]