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{{Short description|Austrian economics think tank}}
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]The '''Ludwig von Mises Institute''' (LVMI) is a foundation, based in ], dedicated to research on ] and ]. It subscribes to a view of government and economics inspired by the ] economist ].
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| founder = Lew Rockwell
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| faculty = 350+<ref>{{cite web |title=Mises Academy:What Is The Mises Institute; What We Do |url=https://mises.org/about-mises/what-is-the-mises-Institute |date=June 18, 2014 |access-date=August 30, 2016 |archive-date=November 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120231825/https://mises.org/about-mises/what-is-the-mises-Institute |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The '''Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics''', or '''Mises Institute''', is a ] ] headquartered in ], that is a center for ], ] thought and the ] and ] movements in the United States.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":12" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Tanenhaus |first1=Sam |last2=Rutenberg |first2=Jim |date=January 25, 2014 |title=Rand Paul's Mixed Inheritance |language=en |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/us/politics/rand-pauls-mixed-inheritance.html |access-date=February 20, 2014 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112040840/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/us/politics/rand-pauls-mixed-inheritance.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is named after the economist ] (1881–1973) and promotes the ] version of ] Austrian economics.<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":9" /><ref name=":11">{{Cite book |last=Lavoie |first=Marc |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839109621 |title=Post-Keynesian Economics |date=2022-05-13 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-83910-962-1 |pages=7|doi=10.4337/9781839109621 |s2cid=249145864 }}</ref>

It was founded in 1982 by ], chief of staff to Texas Republican Congressman ]. Early supporters of the institute included economist ], writer ], economist ], ],<ref name="auto">{{cite web |date=September 18, 2018 |title=The Story of the Mises Institute |url=https://mises.org/wire/story-mises-institute |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823180918/https://mises.org/wire/story-mises-institute |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |access-date=November 23, 2021 |website=Mises Institute}}</ref> and libertarian coin dealer ].<ref name="auto" /><ref name=":18">{{Cite book |last=Doherty |first=Brian |title=Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement |publisher=PublicAffairs |year=2009 |isbn=9780786731886 |location=United States}}</ref>

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==History== ==History==
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The Ludwig von Mises Institute was established in 1982 under the direction of Margit von Mises, widow of Ludwig von Mises, who chaired the Institute's board until her death in 1993. The Institute's founder and current president is ] Jr. ] was a major influence on the Institute's activities, and he served as its ] until his death in ].
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The Mises Institute was founded in 1982 by ], who was chief of staff to Texas Republican Congressman ]; previously Rockwell had been editor for the conservative ] and had worked for the radical-right{{according to whom?|date=August 2024}} ] and the traditionalist ].<ref name=":15">{{Cite book |last=Dallek |first=Matthew |title=Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right |publisher=Basic Books  |year=2023 |location=United States  |quote=Rockwell founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute, where he and libertarian economist Murray Rothbard promoted neo-Confederacy views and the Austrian school of economics that called for the dismantling of state intervention in market economies.}}</ref><ref name=":18" /> Rockwell received the blessing of Margit von Mises during a meeting at the ] in ], and she was named the first chairman of the board.<ref name=":9">{{cite news |date=December 31, 2011 |title=Heterodox economics: Marginal revolutionaries |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/node/21542174 |url-status=live |access-date=February 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222004727/http://www.economist.com/node/21542174 |archive-date=February 22, 2012}}</ref> According to Rockwell, the institute was meant to promote the contributions of Ludwig von Mises, who he feared was being ignored by libertarian institutions financed by ] and ]. As recounted by ], Rockwell said he received a phone call from George Pearson, of the Koch Foundation, who had said that Mises was too radical to name an organization after or promote.<ref name="Raimondo">{{cite book |last=Raimondo |first=Justin |title=Enemy of the State: The Biography of Murray Rothbard |date=2000 |publisher=Prometheus}}</ref>

The original academic vice president of the Mises Institute was ], an influential ] activist and writer who had studied under Ludwig von Mises; Rothbard was a leading figure in the development of ] and had also been a ] co-founder.<ref>{{cite book |last=Leeson |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_pQ4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA180 |title=Hayek: A Collaborative Biography, Part IX: The Divine Right of the 'Free' Market |publisher=Springer |year=2017 |isbn=978-3-319-60708-5 |pages=180 |quote=To the original 'anarchocapitalist' (Rothbard coined the term) .}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jensen |first=Jacob |date=April 2022 |title=Repurposing Mises: Murray Rothbard and the Birth of Anarchocapitalism |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/855169 |journal=Journal of the History of Ideas |language=en |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=315–332 |doi=10.1353/jhi.2022.0015 |pmid=35603616 |s2cid=248985277 |issn=1086-3222}}</ref> Ron Paul, the Texas Republican congressman who would later run for president of the United States, was named a distinguished counselor<ref name=":13">{{Cite magazine |last=Zengerle |first=Jason |date=2010-06-10 |title=Paleo Wacko |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/75252/paleo-wacko |magazine=The New Republic |issn=0028-6583 |access-date=2023-09-02}}</ref> and assisted with early fundraising.<ref name="auto" /> A timber company owner also contributed funds.<ref name=":9" />

Judge John V. Denson assisted in the Mises Institute becoming established at the campus of ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mises.org/library/why-mises-institute-auburn |title=Why the Mises Institute Is in Auburn |date=October 9, 2018 |website=Mises Institute |access-date=November 23, 2021 |archive-date=October 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010081024/https://mises.org/library/why-mises-institute-auburn |url-status=live }}</ref> Auburn was already home to some Austrian economists, including ]. The Mises Institute was affiliated with the Auburn University Business School until 1998 when the institute established its own building across the street from campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mises.org/library/mises-and-liberty |title=Mises and Liberty |date=September 15, 1998 |website=Mises Institute |access-date=November 23, 2021 |archive-date=June 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619062747/https://mises.org/library/mises-and-liberty |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=November 2021}}

The Mises Institute aligned itself with what Rothbard called the ], with "a defense of the gold standard, military isolationism, and 'traditional morality' and opposition to fiat money, supranational institutions, and 'forced integration'", according to academics Niklas Olsen and Quinn Slobodian.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last1=Olsen |first1=Niklas |last2=Slobodian |first2=Quinn |date=April 2022 |title=Locating Ludwig von Mises: Introduction |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/855166 |journal=] |language=en |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=257–267 |doi=10.1353/jhi.2022.0012 |issn=1086-3222 |pmid=35603613 |s2cid=248987154 |url-access=subscription |quote=... the Mises Institute differed from Cato and Heritage through its self-avowed proximity to what Rothbard called the "Old Right" ...}}</ref> It started the '']'' in 1986.<ref name=":8" />

Rothbard and Rockwell coined the name "]" for socially right-wing libertarians like themselves.<ref name=":122">], ed., 2008, '''', ], SAGE, {{ISBN|1-41296580-2}}</ref><ref name=":13" /> They forged a "paleo alliance" between paleolibertarians and ] in the form of the ] in 1989, which allied the Mises Institute and the paleoconservative ].<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":12" /> In the early 1990s, ] ] called the Mises Institute "a ] fist in a libertarian glove."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Levin |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/michael-levin |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806080649/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/michael-levin |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref>{{undue weight inline|date=April 2023}}

Figures at the Mises Institute were associated with ] positions, and the institute held conferences about ], including one in 1995 in ], where the ] had begun.<ref name=":14">{{Cite book |title=Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction.  |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=2009 |editor-last=Sebesta |editor-first=Edward H. |location=United States |pages=33–34 |editor-last2=Hague |editor-first2=Euan |editor-last3=Beirich |editor-first3=Heidi}}</ref><ref name=":15" /><ref name=":16">{{Cite news |last=Weiner |first=Rachel |date=July 10, 2013 |title=The libertarian war over the Civil War |newspaper=] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/07/10/the-libertarian-war-over-the-civil-war/}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Michael J. |title=We are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 |last2=Atchison |first2=R. Jarrod.  |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2022 |location=United States |pages=58–60}}</ref> After Rothbard's death in 1996, his protege ] became a leading ] figure of the institute and is known for his anti-democratic writing.<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Heer |first=Jeet |date=2016-10-24 |title=The Right Is Giving Up on Democracy |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/138019/right-giving-democracy |access-date=2023-09-02 |issn=0028-6583}}</ref>

In a 2000 report, the ] (SPLC) said that the Mises Institute had shown "recent interest in ] themes" and that Rockwell, the institute's founder, had "argued that the Civil War 'transformed the American regime from a federalist system based on freedom to a centralized state that circumscribed liberty in the name of public order.'"<ref name=":17">{{cite web |date=Summer 2000 |title=The Neo-Confederates |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2000/neo-confederates |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222010852/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2000/neo-confederates |archive-date=February 22, 2016 |access-date=August 29, 2018 |work=Intelligence Report |publisher=] |issue=99}}</ref>

Kyle Wingfield wrote a 2006 commentary in '']'' that the ] was a "natural home" for the institute, as "Southerners have always been distrustful of government," with the institute making the "Heart of Dixie a wellspring of sensible economic thinking."<ref name="WSJ-home">{{cite news |last=Wingfield |first=Kyle |date=August 11, 2006 |title=Von Mises Finds A Sweet Home In Alabama |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115526621313033079 |access-date=December 19, 2020 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020205701/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115526621313033079 |url-status=live }}</ref>

By 2011, '']'' said, the Austrian School economics championed by the Mises Institute had "won few mainstream converts". But it noted the think tank's growing presence on the internet as well as its facilities in Auburn including an amphitheater, conservatory, recording studio and library.<ref name=":9" />

The political scientist George Hawley described the Mises Institute in 2016 as "the intellectual epicenter of the radical libertarian movement in the United States".<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Hawley |first=George |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/925410917 |title=Right-wing critics of American conservatism |date=2016 |publisher=164–171 |isbn=978-0-7006-2193-4 |location=Lawrence |oclc=925410917 |quote=... the Ludwig von Mises institute is the intellectual epicenter of the radical libertarian movement in the United States ...}}</ref> As of 2022, about 30 Mises Institutes had been created worldwide; some had died off but others, especially Brazil's, had gained influence.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1vbd2mv |title=Market Civilizations |date=2022-05-24 |publisher=Zone Books |doi=10.2307/j.ctv1vbd2mv |isbn=978-1-942130-68-0 |s2cid=249073465 |editor-last=Slobodian |editor-first=Quinn |editor-last2=Plehwe |editor-first2=Dieter}}</ref>


== Current activities ==
==Beliefs==
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The Institute's goal is to "undermine statism in all its forms." It opposes both ] and the ] 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 ] all over the world through various endowments and fellowships.
The institute describes its mission as 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."<ref name=":6">{{cite web |date=18 June 2014 |title=What is the Mises Institute? |url=https://mises.org/about-mises/what-is-the-mises-Institute |access-date=2022-01-24 |archive-date=November 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120231825/https://mises.org/about-mises/what-is-the-mises-Institute |url-status=live }}</ref>


Its academic programs include Mises University (non-accredited), Rothbard Graduate Seminar, the Austrian Economics Research Conference, and a summer research fellowship program. In 2020, the Mises Institute began offering a graduate program.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mises.org/edu |title=Graduate Program |date=March 26, 2020 |website=Mises Institute |access-date=November 23, 2021 |archive-date=April 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416220431/https://mises.org/edu |url-status=live }}</ref> It publishes the ''Journal of Libertarian Studies,'' which it took over in 2000 from the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Center for Libertarian Studies records |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4290334k/entire_text/ |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}</ref>
In addition to its commentary on Austrian economics, the Institute takes a critical view of all U.S. government activities, foreign and domestic, in American history. Unlike some ] organizations, the ] Institute takes an 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. The Mises Institute's website offers a large number of writings in support of , and explicitly critical of , , , and . An upcoming seminar, for example, explicitly condemns fascism.


The German Mises Institute (Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland e.V.) is a 2012 founded interest group and think tank of libertarian gold traders and investment advisors, which were associated with Swiss-based German billionaire ] (1930–2021). Many gold dealers from the von Finck company Degussa Goldhandel are active on the board of the institute; they reject intergovernmental ] and promote gold as a "safe currency".{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} Von Finck was active in economic policy and criticized the EU.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Milliardär August von Finck kaufte sich die neurechte und liberale Szene Deutschlands {{!}} Recentr |date=May 18, 2020 |url=http://recentr.com/2020/05/18/milliardaer-august-von-finck-kaufte-sich-die-neurechte-und-liberale-szene-deutschlands/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |language=de-DE |archive-date=May 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522122247/http://recentr.com/2020/05/18/milliardaer-august-von-finck-kaufte-sich-die-neurechte-und-liberale-szene-deutschlands/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He assumed the costs for expert opinions from prominent professors, such as ], with whose help the lawyer and politician ] (CSU) took action at the ] against the ] and the Euro.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
The Institute's web site frequently criticizes ]'s handling of the ] and supports a right of ].


==Political and economic views==
==Paleoconservative Themes==
The Mises Institute describes itself as ], and as promoting the ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=newvalleymedia |date=2014-06-18 |title=What Is the Mises Institute? |url=https://mises.org/about-mises/what-is-the-mises-institute |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=Mises Institute |language=en}}</ref> In 2003, ] of the SPLC described it as "a major center promoting libertarian political theory and the Austrian School of free market economics", while also assessing that it favors a "Darwinian view of society in which elites are seen as natural and any intervention by the government on behalf of social justice is destructive".<ref name=":7">{{cite web |last=Berlet |first=Chip |author-link=Chip Berlet |date=Summer 2003 |title=Into the Mainstream |url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/into-the-mainstream?page=0,1#11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207091248/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/into-the-mainstream?page=0,1#11 |archive-date=February 7, 2010 |access-date=September 24, 2013 |work=Intelligence Report |publisher=] |issue=110}}</ref>
The Institute circulates views of race and gender consistent with other paleoconservative groups. For instance, the LVMI holds a critical view of President ], who Institute scholars believe to have contributed to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States. LVMI senior faculty member ] authored a well known critical biography of Lincoln which included his description of the 16th President as "a paragon of wickedness, a man secretly intent on destroying states' rights and building a massive federal government."


The Mises Institute favors the methodology of ] ] ("the logic of human action"),<ref name=":6" /> which holds that economic science is ] rather than ]. Developed by Ludwig von Mises, following the '']'' opined by ], it opposes the ]ing and ] used to justify knowledge in ]. Misesian economics is a form of ].<ref name=":10">{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1536-7150.2010.00751.x |title=Research Quality Rankings of Heterodox Economic Journals in a Contested Discipline |journal=American Journal of Economics and Sociology |volume=69 |issue=5 |pages=1409–1452 |year=2010 |last1=Lee |first1=Frederic S. |last2=Cronin |first2=Bruce C. |last3=McConnell |first3=Scott |last4=Dean |first4=Erik|s2cid=145069581 }}</ref><ref name=":9" /><ref name=":11" /> It is distinct from that of other ], including Hayek and those associated with ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mises.org/wire/socialism-calculation-problem-not-knowledge-problem-0 |title=Socialism: The Calculation Problem Is Not the Knowledge Problem |date=March 13, 2018 |website=Mises Institute |access-date=November 23, 2021 |archive-date=March 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321191639/https://mises.org/wire/socialism-calculation-problem-not-knowledge-problem-0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist |url=https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=econfaculty.gmu.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ebeling |first=Richard M. |date=2014-12-01 |title=Hayek e Mises |url=https://misesjournal.org.br/misesjournal/article/view/697 |journal=MISES: Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Law and Economics |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=629–650 |doi=10.30800/mises.2014.v2.697 |issn=2594-9187|doi-access=free }}</ref>
===Dispute with the Southern Poverty Law Center===
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The LVMI has drawn criticism from the ] ] (SPLC), itself a controversial group. In its article criticizing the Institute, the SPLC alleges that the LVMI is nostalgic for a time when "because of selective mating, marriage, and the laws of civil and genetic inheritance, positions of natural authority likely to be passed on within a few noble families." Citing some mutual affiliations between the Institute's faculty, such as research director ], and the ], the Center called the Mises Institute a "] organization." .


== Influence on campaigns and government ==
Adjunct faculty member ] shares a similar view of Lincoln, who he attributes with the creation of "a French Revolutionary style unitary state" and "centralizing totalitarianism." The SPLC reports that he once said that it is evil to believe that Lincoln acted out of good motives. The SPLC objects to Livingston's critique of Lincoln's motives and to his connection to the League of the South Institute. The SPLC criticizes Lew Rockwell's website for having a section entitled "King Lincoln" with topics such as "Heil, Abe," "Lincoln vs. Liberty," and "Hitler Was a Lincolnite." ], another adjunct faculty member, is quoted as saying "We're tired of carpetbagging professionals coming to our campuses and teaching that the South is a cultural wasteland."
The ] economic and cultural views of some of the Mises Institute's leading figures have been influential in the ] of ], the ] of ], the ] ], and the ] for chair of the ].<ref name=":3">{{cite magazine |last1=Sanchez |first1=Julian |last2=Weigel |first2=David |date=January 16, 2008 |title=Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters? |url=https://reason.com/2008/01/16/who-wrote-ron-pauls-newsletter/ |url-status=live |magazine=Reason |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409082300/http://reason.com/archives/2008/01/16/who-wrote-ron-pauls-newsletter |archive-date=April 9, 2019 |access-date=December 28, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Sheffield |first=Matthew |date=September 2, 2016 |title=Where did Donald Trump get his racialized rhetoric? From libertarians. |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/02/where-did-donald-trump-get-his-racialized-rhetoric-from-libertarians/ |url-status=live |access-date=December 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012131625/https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/02/where-did-donald-trump-get-his-racialized-rhetoric-from-libertarians/ |archive-date=October 12, 2016 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rutenberg |first1=Jim |last2=Kovaleski |first2=Serge F. |date=December 26, 2011 |title=Paul Disowns Extremists' Views but Doesn't Disavow the Support (Published 2011) |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/politics/ron-paul-disowns-extremists-views-but-doesnt-disavow-the-support.html |url-status=live |access-date=December 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107100807/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/politics/ron-paul-disowns-extremists-views-but-doesnt-disavow-the-support.html |archive-date=January 7, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite news |last=Welch |first=Matt |date=July 4, 2018 |title=Libertarian Party Rebuffs Mises Uprising |work=Reason |url=https://reason.com/2018/07/04/libertarian-party-rebuffs-mises-uprising/ |url-status=live |access-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015193330/https://reason.com/2018/07/04/libertarian-party-rebuffs-mises-uprising/ |archive-date=October 15, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":13" />


A 2014 '']'' piece described the Mises Institute as part of ]'s intellectual inheritance.<ref name=":0" />
As with many political activities involving the SPLC, the group's application of the "neo-confederate" label and allegations against LVMI are controversial and have been described as defamatory. Several Ludwig von Mises Institute affiliates have denounced the organization for making allegations that they deem irresponsible. Myles Kantor has denounced the SPLC, stating that it engages in fear mongering and the smearing of legitimate, non-racist groups in pursuit of profitable financial contributions and ideological goal. According to Kantor, the SPLC's labelling tactics make the "egregious" and "defamatory" implications that "the Center for the Study of Popular Culture and Mises Institute seek to restore Hitlerian policies." Gail Jarvis, writing for Rockwell's website, accuses the SPLC's ] of using scare tactics including "hate group" labelling to solicit and accumulate financial contributions. She accuses former SPLC President ] of "]." Tibor Machan asserts that the SPLC and Dees are "not fighting poverty but they were a major threat against the First Amendment and the presumption of innocence in our criminal justice system." Karen DeCoster writes that Dees and the SPLC "have made zillions from anti-free speech, anti-free press hate campaigns" by making false allegations of racism.


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* ] – Professor of Entrepreneurship and Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise at ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://business.baylor.edu/directory/?id=Peter_Klein |title=Peter Klein |work=Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business |access-date=December 22, 2017 |language=en |archive-date=June 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608014602/http://business.baylor.edu/directory/?id=Peter_Klein |url-status=live }}</ref>
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* ] – Fox News pundit and former judge
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* ] – physician, author, and former congressman
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Mises Institute
FounderLew Rockwell
Established1982; 42 years ago (1982)
FocusEconomics education, Austrian school of economics, and libertarianism in the United States (anarcho-capitalism, classical liberalism, paleolibertarianism, and right-libertarianism)
Faculty350+
Staff21
Key peopleLew Rockwell (Chairman)
Thomas DiLorenzo (President)
Joseph Salerno (Editor
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics)
BudgetRevenue: $4,200,056
Expenses: $4,165,289
(FYE 2017)
LocationAuburn, Alabama, United States
Websitemises.org

The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, that is a center for Austrian economics, right-wing libertarian thought and the paleolibertarian and anarcho-capitalist movements in the United States. It is named after the economist Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) and promotes the Misesian version of heterodox Austrian economics.

It was founded in 1982 by Lew Rockwell, chief of staff to Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul. Early supporters of the institute included economist F. A. Hayek, writer Henry Hazlitt, economist Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, and libertarian coin dealer Burt Blumert.

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The Mises Institute was founded in 1982 by Lew Rockwell, who was chief of staff to Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul; previously Rockwell had been editor for the conservative Arlington House Publishers and had worked for the radical-right John Birch Society and the traditionalist Hillsdale College. Rockwell received the blessing of Margit von Mises during a meeting at the Russian Tea Room in New York City, and she was named the first chairman of the board. According to Rockwell, the institute was meant to promote the contributions of Ludwig von Mises, who he feared was being ignored by libertarian institutions financed by Charles Koch and David Koch. As recounted by Justin Raimondo, Rockwell said he received a phone call from George Pearson, of the Koch Foundation, who had said that Mises was too radical to name an organization after or promote.

The original academic vice president of the Mises Institute was Murray Rothbard, an influential right-wing libertarian activist and writer who had studied under Ludwig von Mises; Rothbard was a leading figure in the development of anarcho-capitalism and had also been a Cato Institute co-founder. Ron Paul, the Texas Republican congressman who would later run for president of the United States, was named a distinguished counselor and assisted with early fundraising. A timber company owner also contributed funds.

Judge John V. Denson assisted in the Mises Institute becoming established at the campus of Auburn University. Auburn was already home to some Austrian economists, including Roger Garrison. The Mises Institute was affiliated with the Auburn University Business School until 1998 when the institute established its own building across the street from campus.

The Mises Institute aligned itself with what Rothbard called the Old Right, with "a defense of the gold standard, military isolationism, and 'traditional morality' and opposition to fiat money, supranational institutions, and 'forced integration'", according to academics Niklas Olsen and Quinn Slobodian. It started the Review of Austrian Economics in 1986.

Rothbard and Rockwell coined the name "paleolibertarians" for socially right-wing libertarians like themselves. They forged a "paleo alliance" between paleolibertarians and paleoconservatives in the form of the John Randolph Club in 1989, which allied the Mises Institute and the paleoconservative Rockford Institute. In the early 1990s, Austrian economist Steven Horwitz called the Mises Institute "a fascist fist in a libertarian glove."

Figures at the Mises Institute were associated with neo-Confederate positions, and the institute held conferences about secession, including one in 1995 in Charleston, South Carolina, where the American Civil War had begun. After Rothbard's death in 1996, his protege Hans-Hermann Hoppe became a leading anarcho-capitalist figure of the institute and is known for his anti-democratic writing.

In a 2000 report, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said that the Mises Institute had shown "recent interest in neo-Confederate themes" and that Rockwell, the institute's founder, had "argued that the Civil War 'transformed the American regime from a federalist system based on freedom to a centralized state that circumscribed liberty in the name of public order.'"

Kyle Wingfield wrote a 2006 commentary in The Wall Street Journal that the Southern United States was a "natural home" for the institute, as "Southerners have always been distrustful of government," with the institute making the "Heart of Dixie a wellspring of sensible economic thinking."

By 2011, The Economist said, the Austrian School economics championed by the Mises Institute had "won few mainstream converts". But it noted the think tank's growing presence on the internet as well as its facilities in Auburn including an amphitheater, conservatory, recording studio and library.

The political scientist George Hawley described the Mises Institute in 2016 as "the intellectual epicenter of the radical libertarian movement in the United States". As of 2022, about 30 Mises Institutes had been created worldwide; some had died off but others, especially Brazil's, had gained influence.

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The institute describes its mission as 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."

Its academic programs include Mises University (non-accredited), Rothbard Graduate Seminar, the Austrian Economics Research Conference, and a summer research fellowship program. In 2020, the Mises Institute began offering a graduate program. It publishes the Journal of Libertarian Studies, which it took over in 2000 from the Center for Libertarian Studies.

The German Mises Institute (Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland e.V.) is a 2012 founded interest group and think tank of libertarian gold traders and investment advisors, which were associated with Swiss-based German billionaire August von Finck (1930–2021). Many gold dealers from the von Finck company Degussa Goldhandel are active on the board of the institute; they reject intergovernmental fiscal policy and promote gold as a "safe currency". Von Finck was active in economic policy and criticized the EU. He assumed the costs for expert opinions from prominent professors, such as Hans-Werner Sinn, with whose help the lawyer and politician Peter Gauweiler (CSU) took action at the German Federal Constitutional Court against the rescue packages for Greece and the Euro.

Political and economic views

The Mises Institute describes itself as libertarian, and as promoting the Austrian School of economics. In 2003, Chip Berlet of the SPLC described it as "a major center promoting libertarian political theory and the Austrian School of free market economics", while also assessing that it favors a "Darwinian view of society in which elites are seen as natural and any intervention by the government on behalf of social justice is destructive".

The Mises Institute favors the methodology of Misesian praxeology ("the logic of human action"), which holds that economic science is deductive rather than empirical. Developed by Ludwig von Mises, following the Methodenstreit opined by Carl Menger, it opposes the mathematical modeling and hypothesis-testing used to justify knowledge in neoclassical economics. Misesian economics is a form of heterodox economics. It is distinct from that of other Austrian economists, including Hayek and those associated with George Mason University.

Influence on campaigns and government

The paleolibertarian economic and cultural views of some of the Mises Institute's leading figures have been influential in the presidential campaigns of Ron Paul, the presidential campaign of Rand Paul, the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, and the candidacy of Joshua Smith for chair of the Libertarian Party.

A 2014 New York Times piece described the Mises Institute as part of Rand Paul's intellectual inheritance.

Candice Jackson, who served as acting head of the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights during the Trump Administration, was previously a summer fellow at the Mises Institute and had collaborated on articles for Rockwell's website.

Notable faculty

Notable figures affiliated with the Mises Institute include:

See also

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