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• Free Markets Promote Peaceful Cooperation and Racial Harmony

  By their nature, free markets promote harmony between people and increase overall standards of living. This view is radically different from the ones promoted by Marxists who believe that only “class interests” matter.

• The Problem with International Organizations like the EU and the WTO

  Organizations like the European Union and the United Nations are inventions of government elites and are designed to serve the interests of government elites. They centralize political power and do nothing to advance peace or freedom.

• NEW COURSE: Lessons For The Young Economist

  We’ve just released the first two video lectures in Jonathan Newman’s new online course based on Dr. Murphy’s Lessons For the Young Economist, on our recently refurbished Mises Academy platform.

• Empire as the Price of Bureaucracy

  Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.

• Our Debt, the Hapsburg Empire, and Economic Illiteracy

  Americans like to believe that the US is a wealthy, indestructible country, but as government debt piles up and inflation ravages the economy, perhaps they need to start worrying. Our present path is unsustainable.