Ludwig von Mises Institute

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{{cquote|Central banking ''is'' monetary central planning. The United States and, indeed, virtually the entire world operate under [[Red-baiting|a regime of monetary socialism.]]|||Richard Ebeling, former Mises Professor of Economics at [[Hillsdale College]]<ref>Leonard, Andrew, [http://www.salon.com/2011/05/11/republicans_and_ludwig_von_mises/ "A new powerhouse for ridiculous GOP economics"]</ref>}}

The '''Ludwig von Mises Institute''' is an [[United States|American]] [[think tank]] (tax-exempt!) specializing in [[Austrian school]] economics and [[political philosophy]]. It was established in 1982 by [[Lew Rockwell]] with the approval of Margit von Mises, the widow of the Austrian school economist [[Ludwig von Mises]]. They have published many journals on political economy, [[economics]], and [[philosophy]], working from multiple angles to combine [[racism]] with [[Prosperity gospel|wealth worship]] and empirical science [[denialism|denial]]. Overall, the site consists of three parts: repetitive nonsense, some valuable ideas, and ideas that Mises himself objects to.

Econ majors will be pleased to know that LvMI offers fellowships, plus awards to those who have made (in their opinion) exceptional contributions in the field of economics. They offer an array of summer camp-style [http://mises.org/events.aspx "seminars"] where the future leaders of tomorrow can learn how to 
get laughed out of the boardroom
 take advantage of other [[sucker]]s by saying "prax" a lot.

==Hail Hydra==

How do you get southerners, who have a long-standing rebellious streak, few wealthy areas, and strong opposition to banking and trading floors, to help deregulate Wall Street? These things are not in their best interests. To that end, the Mises Institute was physically attached to Auburn University in [[Alabama]], which probably isn't an accident. Nor is it a coincidence that one of their senior scholars, [[Gary North]], married [[R.J. Rushdoony]]'s daughter (Rushdoony is the founder of [[Dominionism|"Christian Reconstructionism"]], which seeks to take the finer points of [[Calvinism]] and insert those into [[Southern Baptist|Southern Baptism]]).<ref>Peron, Jim, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110628011349/http://www.againstpolitics.com/von-mises-washed-in-the-blood-of-jesus "Von Mises Washed in the Blood of Jesus"], First Published in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1.14.01.</ref> Nor is it a coincidence that the white-secessionist [[League of the South]] is located right up the road, or that they cross-recruit.<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2000/neo-confederates "The Neo-Confederates"], ''The Intelligence Report'' 9.15.00.</ref> Add to that the fact that they're pandering to Neo-Confederates on purpose (especially [[Thomas DiLorenzo|DiLorenzo]]), and we begin to understand the type of propaganda they're pushing. Get the church to re-enforce that message, and bam, you've got the [[Southern Strategy|Republican South]] for the first time ever. 

You know that cast of white nationalist characters who swirl around Trump? Check out how many familiar names are visiting [[Hans-Hermann Hoppe|Triple H]] in [[Turkey]].<ref>Piggot, Stephen, [https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/09/paypal-co-founder-peter-thiel-address-white-nationalist-friendly-%E2%80%9Cproperty-and-freedom "PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel to Address White Nationalist-Friendly “Property and Freedom Society” Conference in September"], [[Southern Poverty Law Center|SPLC]] 6.9.16.</ref> These men have a satellite organization (the Property and Freedom Society) they run out of Europe to promote the cause of [[Monarchy|monarchism]] abroad.

==Political positions==

The Institute leans toward [[anarcho-capitalism]] and tends to view more soft-line libertarian think tanks like the [[Cato Institute]] as compromising [[No True Scotsman|Beltway insiders]]. They believe we were better off under monarchy, 'cos no democracy and the king privately owns everything so way moar 
serfdom
 freedom. Even a constitutional monarchy is a step in the wrong direction. If you disagree then you're just not rational enough to hang with the Austrians.<ref>[[Hans-Hermann Hoppe|Hoppe, Hans-Hermann]], [https://mises.org/library/introduction-democracy-god-failed Introduction to ''Democracy: The God That Failed''], 12.4.01.</ref>

The Institute supports a [[Isolationism|non-interventionist]] foreign policy. That includes a retrospective opposition to America's involvement in [[World War II]], harkening back to the [[paleoconservative|paleocon]] philosophy which really took off [[New Deal|around that time]]. They walk a fine line of expressing overt sympathy with the Axis powers:<ref>Mises, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150928063807/https://mises.org/library/liberalism-classical-tradition/html/p/29 On the Argument of Fascism] — ''Liberalism'' (1927). Oh, the irony that the ideology he loves ends up killing his own people 12 years later.</ref> Austrian praxers hate Hitler for his public works and monetary policies. To them ''that'' is the defining characteristic of Nazism. Everything apart from the whole 'racism, mass-murder and invading other countries' stuff,<ref>Reisman, George, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141122040418/https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian "Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian"], ''Mises Daily'' 11.11.05.</ref> never mind that the term [[privatization]] was coined to describe their economy. That way, they can say that literally everyone is Hitler<ref>Anderson, William L., [https://mises.org/library/economics-bernie-sanders "The Economics of Bernie Sanders"], ''Mises Daily'' 9.1.13.   Tl;dr Going off the gold standard and having any government at all is literally Hitler.</ref> except people [[Phantom distinction|very similar in thinking to Hitler]] who lean libertarian on economics, such as that great American [[David Duke]].<ref>[[Murray Rothbard|Rothbard, Murray]], [https://mises.org/library/strategy-right "A Strategy For the Right"], ''Mises'' 3.9.10. '''Rothbard''': "[Duke] was not a libertarian, he was not an isolationist, he was not even a conservative, but in fact was a moderate Republican."</ref>

Between your [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]]-whitewashing,<ref>Reisman, George, [https://mises.org/blog/general-augusto-pinochet-dead "General Augusto Pinochet is Dead"], ''Mises'' 12.16.06.</ref> DUI-defending,<ref>Rockwell Jr., Llywellyn H. [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2000/11/lew-rockwell/legalize-drunk-driving/ "Legalize Drunk Driving"], ''Mises'' 11.1.00.</ref> [[Rape apology|rape-apologizing]],<ref>Andersen, William L., [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/02/william-l-anderson/when-accusations-are-proof/ "When Accusations Are Proof"], ''Mises''' 2.6.14.</ref> [[Gilded Age|child market]]-advocating,<ref>Tucker, Jeffrey A., [https://mises.org/library/trouble-child-labor-laws "The Trouble With Child Labor Laws"], ''Mises Daily'' 2.11.08</ref> 
[[Secure the border|cryptoracism]]
 just open [[racism]],<ref>Rockwell Jr., Llywellyn H., [https://mises.org/library/open-borders-are-assault-private-property "Open Borders are an Assault on Private Property"], ''Mises Daily'' 11.16.15.</ref><ref>Rockwell Jr., Llywellyn H., [http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-10/opinion/op-178_1_safe-streets/ on Rodney King], ''L.A. Times'' 3.10.91. "The prospect of a jail sentence 12 months from now has virtually no effect."</ref> [[homophobia]],<ref>Freiling, Nicholas, [https://mises.org/library/public-accommodation-and-social-engineering "Public Accommodation and Social Engineering"], ''Mises Daily'' 10.24.14.</ref> [[anti-environmentalism]]<ref>Reisman, Gregory, [https://mises.org/library/rhetoric-environmental-movement "Environmentalism Refuted"], ''Mises'' 4.20.01.</ref> and [[Crank magnetism|every insane wingnuttery]] in-between, they cover almost every Ayncrap trope... ALMOST: they don't like [[Bitcoin]]. You should [[gold standard (economics)|buy gold]]!<ref>Shostack, Frank, [https://mises.org/library/bitcoin-money-myth "The Bitcoin Money Myth"], ''Mises Daily'' 4.17.13.</ref> Burton Blumert, a chairman of the Institute, owned one of the biggest bullion companies at the time (hence the obsession with gold).<ref>Baedeker, Rob, [https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/the-gold-standard-a-precious-metal-that-s-not-2540353.php "The gold standard - A precious metal that's not just an investment but a worldview too"], SFGate 2.25.08.</ref>

Surprisingly, the Institute has played host to left-libertarians now and again either through lectures or online articles. A notable example of this is Roderick T. Long, who is a well-known proponent of left-libertarian market anarchism and who serves as the Institute's senior scholar. But given how the Institute treats "leftists" with unmitigated scorn, left-libertarians who associate with the Mises Institute typically try not to lay it on thick with their left-wing viewpoints, especially in regards to the market. They sometimes [[Vulgar libertarianism|cherry pick parts of their left-leaning philosophies]] that are deemed acceptable by the Institute and right-libertarianism in general to stay in the good graces of people occupying both. Or they don't cover things like economics at all in favor of other subjects.

==Conspiracy theories, pseudohistory, and pseudoscience ==

===Pearl Harbor and 9/11===

The Institute seems to be sympathetic to the [[Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory]] as well as [[9/11 conspiracy theories]], going so far as to give a rather favorable review to [[David Ray Griffin]]'s book ''The New Pearl Harbor''.<ref>[http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=254 Review of ''The New Pearl Harbor'' in ''The Mises Review''.]</ref>

===Climate change===

The Mises Institute swallows the old canard that climate change is a [[global warming conspiracy theory|money-making scheme perpetrated by scientists to get grant money]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091216105203/http://mises.org/daily/2571 "I Was on the Global Warming Gravy Train"], Mises Daily</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://mises.org/blog/25-years-ago-ny-times-got-global-warming-right|title=25 Years Ago NY Times Got Global Warming Right|accessdate=2016-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/06/david-deming/global-warming-is-a-fraud/|title=Global Warming Is a Fraud|date=2009-06-29|accessdate=2016-02-08|author=David Deming}}</ref><ref name=pseudoscienceLR>{{cite web|url=https://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/03/donald-w-miller-jr-md/questioning-hivaids/|title=Questioning HIV/AIDS, Human-Caused Global Warming, and Other Orthodoxies in the Biomedical Sciences|accessdate=2016-02-08|date=2008-03-04}}</ref> Unsurprisingly the Mises Institute receives regular donations from the fossil fuel industry, which they have taken measures to hide but became known due to their tax records. <ref>[https://cssn.org/cssn-research-report-20212-the-mises-institute-network-and-climate-policy-9-findings/ CSSN Research Report 2021:2: The Mises Institute Network and Climate Policy. 9 Findings]</ref>

===Smarter than Einstein===

[[Lew Rockwell]] and LvMI have published an article claiming that Special Relativity is wrong and General Relativity is unnecessary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lewrockwell.com/2011/02/tom-bethell/relativity-and-the-priesthood-of-science/|title="Relativity and the Priesthood of Science"|date=2011-02-28|accessdate=2016-02-08|author=Tom Bethell}}</ref><ref>https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=Questioning_Einstein:_Is_Relativity_Necessary%3F</ref> Putting aside the fact that relativity is an accurate and highly successful scientific theory with plenty of empirical evidence behind it, anyone who is well-versed in even the most introductory levels of relativity will know that this claim is contradictory: special relativity is a special case of general relativity<ref>https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/134417/is-special-relativity-a-special-case-of-general-relativity-qualitatively</ref><ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/10/11/whats-so-special-about-special-relativity/?sh=5e97954124b1</ref>; as in, general relativity reduces to special relativity when it is applied to flat spacetime (e.g. when there are no extremely massive objects in the vicinity). Thus, special relativity cannot be wrong at the same time that general relativity is correct.

===Typhoid Mises===

The Institute web site supports the old and groundless accusation that [[Anti-vaccination_movement|the MMR vaccine causes autism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mises.org/blog/cdc-pharma-and-mainstream-media-same-team|title=CDC, PHARMA, And Mainstream Media On The Same Team|date=2014-10-17|accessdate=2016-02-08}}</ref>

Lewser has also published an article claiming that [[Hiv_denial|HIV is not the cause of AIDS]].<ref name=pseudoscienceLR/>

===Blood for the Blood God!===

[[File:Walter block-teaching.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Walter Block, misinterpreting the shocked silence of the audience as a lack of a counterargument. (Why does ''everything'' in Libertarian Fantasy Land reduce to selling your children?)]]
The Institute defends a competitive market for human organs, including from ''living'' people.<ref>Danny Frederick (2010-11-07). [https://web.archive.org/web/20201025010325/https://mises.org/library/competitive-market-human-organs "A Competitive Market in Human Organs".]</ref> This unhinged idea is more accepted than it might appear nonetheless. Prominent economists like the Nobel prize winners Alvin Roth<ref>[https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.21.3.37 Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets]</ref> and Gary Becker<ref>[https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/cash-for-kidneys-will-solve-the-organ-shortage-save-money-spent-on-dialysis-and-then-well-wonder-why-it-took-so-long/ Cash for kidneys will solve the organ shortage, save money spent on dialysis, and then we’ll wonder why it took so long]</ref> supported a mitigated version of this too. 

Also, parents mustn't be required to feed or clothe their babies.  Everyone should have the right to abandon their babies to death, especially if the babies are deformed.  If you disagree with that, your best hope is to convince the parents to sell the babies in the free baby market.<ref>Murray N. Rothbard. [https://mises.org/library/children-and-rights "Children and Rights"]. Retrieved 2016-02-08.</ref> If you were disappointed that ''A Modest Proposal'' was satire, you might be a libertarian.

The Institute promotes the books ''Defending the Undefendable I'' and ''II'',<ref name=undefendable/><ref>Thorton, Mark, [https://mises.org/library/walter-block-still-defending-undefendable "Walter Block is Still Defending the Undefendable"], ''Mises Daily'' 12.30.13.</ref> from [[Walter Edward Block]]. The books defend blackmail, slander, libel, [[hate speech]], the [[death penalty]], and (of course) child porn. These are only "defendable" insofar as he can rely on [[Libertarianism#Philosophical_problems|tricky definitions of NAP]] to make them O.K. [[Charity]], on the other hand, is condemned as being "undeniably harmful". The reason for opposing charity is their idea that charity disrupts [[Social Darwinism|the survival of the fittest, thus obstructing the evolution of the human species]].  Remember that the Institute already promulgates the position that the State has no right to invest in education, orphanages, day care, health care or social security.  And on top of that, they ''actively discourage voluntary charity''.<ref>Petersen, William H., [https://mises.org/library/capitalism-greatest-charity "Capitalism: The Greatest Charity"], ''Mises Daily'' 1.1.12.</ref> The book has a foreword by Rothbard and an enthusiastic preface by Hayek.

===White supremacy===

The head of the Institute, Lew Rockwell, [[Lew Rockwell#Ron Paul newsletters|wrote some rather interesting things about black people]] in the wake of the L.A. riots.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201030133500/http://theaporetic.com/history/ron-paul-the-gold-standard-and-neo-confederates/ Ron Paul, the Gold Standard, and Neo-Confederates], The Aporetic</ref> In addition, it has a rather [[Lost Cause of the South|interesting interpretation]] of the [[American Civil War]], viewing President [[Abraham Lincoln]] as the statist villain who sought to drastically expand the power of central government at the expense of [[states' rights]], rather than keep the Union intact in the face of a secession motivated by slave ownership. On that last, they feel that compensation for slave owners (as some had proposed back then) would have been better, preserving "states' rights" and averting war, though [[Murray Rothbard]] has quipped that it was more the slaves who deserved compensation than their owners, at least. They also ignore that in fact Lincoln backed a constitutional amendment that would have preserved slavery in the South if they didn't secede, but they wouldn't agree. Some also point to various banking conspiracy theories as causes of the conflict. Ironically Lincoln himself feared the rising power of banks and industrial [[capitalism]] (as [[Thomas Jefferson]] did) while conspiracy theories of his own assassination often name international bankers as suspects. The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] has condemned Rockwell and Rothbard's [[Race card|racially-tinged rhetoric]] and endorsement of questionable candidates.<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/mainstream/ SPLC on LvMI]</ref><ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/neo-confederates/ SPLC: The Neo-Confederates]</ref>

Mises himself [[Hand wave|sidestepped]] the issue of whether some races are superior to others by stating that even if that is the case, the law of comparative advantage (referred to by Mises as "Ricardo's law of association") still enables members of different races to cooperate in mutually beneficial ways: "It may be admitted that the races differ in talent and character and that there is no hope of ever seeing those differences resolved. Still, [[free trade]] theory shows that even the more capable races derive an advantage from associating with the less capable and that social co-operation brings them the advantage of higher productivity in the total labour process."<ref>[http://mises.org/books/socialism/part3_ch19.aspx#_sec5|Mises, Ludwig von ''Socialism'']</ref> Mises believed that due to that economic law, there need not be irreconcilable conflict between the races, or enslavement of any race by another, although he also noted, "It is nonsensical to fight the racial hypothesis by negating obvious facts. It is vain to deny that up to now certain races have contributed nothing or very little to the development of civilization and can, in this sense, be called inferior."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000817212414/http://www.mises.org/humanaction/chap3sec6.asp Mises, Ludwig von ''Human Action'']</ref>

===Tobacco smoking===

The Mises Institute considers [[Tobacco smoking|tobacco smokers]] to be "America's most persecuted minority" (actual quote) <ref>[https://mises.org/mises-wire/tobacco-smokers-americas-most-persecuted-minority Tobacco Smokers: America’s Most Persecuted Minority]</ref> and has drawn parallels between regulating tobacco products and Nazism. <ref>[https://mises.org/free-market/are-cigarettes-doomed Are Cigarettes Doomed?]</ref> Several key personnel and major contributors at the institute are also tobacco industry lobbyists. <ref>[https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute#Personnel SourceWatch: The Mises Institute]</ref>

==Greatest hits==
[[Image:LvMI_sign.jpeg|thumb|200px|They dare defend their 
rights
 parking. Too bad it isn't a worthwhile cut-through.]]

With its zealous defense of everything free market, the von Mises Institute frequently lapses into bouts of self-parody. For salient and highly comical examples, see:

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130304084159/http://mises.org/daily/5415 A Libertarian Case for Monarchy] - Monarchism is compatible with classical liberalism. [[Neoreactionary movement|Neoreactionaries]] rejoice!
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100207154508/http://mises.org/daily/2066 Stateless in Somalia and Loving It!]{{Poe}} - Written by people who almost certainly have not been in Somalia.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101009013727/http://mises.org/daily/4745 The Praxeology and Ethics of Traffic Lights] — The gummint can't tell us how to drive our cars!
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100327104646/http://mises.org/daily/661 Environmentalism Refuted] - Take that, nature!  Speaking of nature, oil spill got you down? [https://web.archive.org/web/20100507083601/http://mises.org/daily/4331 It's BP you should be feeling sorry for!] (Screw the pelicans, they probably would have voted Democrat anyway.)
*Nothing is better than curling up by the fire to have a free market Christmas with an annual reading of [https://web.archive.org/web/20091127051818/http://mises.org/daily/110 Scrooge Defended] — In Lew Rockell’s mind, only drunk drivers are as oppressed as Scrooge.
*DUI arrests are [https://mises.org/library/legalize-drunk-driving state oppression] (discrimination against drunkards)—[[Moral equivalence|far more harmful]] than racial profiling. *hic*
*Ah, [https://mises.org/library/freedom-and-prosperity-liechtenstein-hoppean-analysis Liechtenstein], a model of self-determination in a world brimming with chaos. The main causes of medieval war were based around land and resource acquisition. In today's modern world where all territories are claimed, this is no longer a serious issue!{{lie}} It appears Lew Rockwell [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/08/thomas-h-naylor/the-principality-of-liechtenstein-a-model-of-self-determination-for-a-world-filled-with-chaos/ agrees.]
*Ever the contrarians, LvMI declares that [https://mises.org/library/why-we-need-recession recessions are actually really good!] This idea has been around [[Andrew_W._Mellon#The_bust|a long time]] before mises.org.
*The demise of [[Internet assassination|Silk Road]] is [https://web.archive.org/web/20170322170814/https://www.mises.ca/online-black-market-silk-road-shut-down-fbi-connects-owner-to-the-mises-institute "a loss for freedom"!] Those ancaps sure do love their speed. If the arrest of a would-be hitman is a "loss for freedom", we'd love to see how the Mises Institute would handle crime in their utopia.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151210180348/https://mises.org/system/tdf/Left%20and%20Right_3_3_1.pdf?file=1&type=document Ernesto Che Guevara, RIP] - No one with a decent grasp on reality would call Che Guevara, the [[far-left]] [[communist]] revolutionary, a "libertarian." Which Murray Rothbard, an "[[anarcho-capitalist]]", somehow manages to do. [[Horseshoe theory]] in action??
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100428230744/http://mises.org/daily/1884 In Defense of Bribery] and [https://mises.org/library/defending-blackmailer Defending the Blackmailer] - Via praxeology, of course. Personal information is just another tradeable commodity, is it not? (Leave it to a Libertarian to put a price tag on "not being a dick".)
*[https://mises.org/blog/public-sector-unions-keep-gravy-train-flowing-fire-departments Mises.org hates fatcat firefighters now] — Damn statists won't let me build explosive deathtraps! <sup>and collect the insurance</sup> How's a slumlord supposed to get by now?
*[https://mises.org/library/why-mises-and-not-hayek Why Mises (and not Hayek)?] - Hoppe here argues that [[Friedrich Hayek]] was a "mild social-democrat" and not a Classical Liberal like Mises because he wasn't against all forms of social security and the welfare state. Not only is this a blatant example of the [[No True Scotsman]] fallacy (showing again his problems with basic logic), but it is also historically inaccurate: Mises was one of the few prominent figures in the libertarian tradition that did not support these policies. Whether Hoppe is just ignorant of the facts or was being dishonest is unknown.
*[https://mises.org/library/legalize-drunk-driving Legalize Drunk Driving] - Probably most of Libertarians see that as stupidity, but the President of the Institute wrote the article, so no one had the guts to tell him how wrong he was. 
*[https://mises.org/library/children-and-rights Children and Rights] - If you think parents are obliged to feed their children, you are being antithetical.
*[https://mises.org/library/adam-smith-myth The Adam Smith Myth] - Think the world would be better without communism? Blame [[Adam Smith]]. 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170925024149/https://mises.org/system/tdf/16_4_3.pdf?file=1&type=document Milton Friedman Unraveled] - Think Keyesianism is bad? Blame [[Milton Friedman]].
*[https://mises.org/mises-wire/tobacco-smokers-americas-most-persecuted-minority Tobacco Smokers: America's Most Persecuted Minority] - Yes that's the actual title of the article, and yes the author, Rothbard, is dead serious.

==Luminaries==

* '''[[Walter Block]]''' (Senior Fellow): Ah yes, the man who says that [[Social darwinism|poor people should basically die for the good of the species]] while "pimps, drug dealers, blackmailers, corrupt policemen, and loan sharks" are somehow free speech heroes.<ref name="undefendable">Block, Walter, ''[https://mises.org/library/defending-undefendable Defending the Undefendable]'' (2008). That book might be the prax to end all praxes.</ref> Block defends a lot of other crazy shit, like letting wealthy pedophiles rape your kids,<ref group="note">This guy spends an awful lot of time thinking up moral justifications for pedophilia. Block is the "economist" who, on [[Liberal_talk_radio#Sam_Seder|Seder's]] podcast, when the topic of "arbitrary" laws came up, his ''[http://majority.fm/2015/02/11/211-sam-seder-v-walter-block-round-2/# very first example]'' was age of consent laws. (i.e.  imagining "[[Reductio ad absurdum|a starvation situation]]" where it would preferable to just let Walter bang your kid rather than letting your whole family starve.) Ancaps, this is your brain trust.</ref> and the "[[race realism]]" which is all the rage in recent years.<ref group="note">A [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10818-015-9202-7 review] of Nicholas Wade's ''A Troublesome Inheritance'' by Walter E. Block. A criticism of Wade here, he's just not racist enough: "''From the libertarian (Rothbard 1982) perspective, since racism does not necessarily violate the non-aggression principle (NAP) of this philosophy, it should be legalized. Williams and Sowell support discriminatory behavior as a right, and deny that it has any serious deleterious effects on its targets.''"</ref> But those don't show up in his book, which was written when he was still only interested in economics.<ref>Block, Walter, [http://www.reasonpapers.com/pdf/26/rp_26_4.pdf "Libertarianism vs Objectivism; A Response to Peter Schwartz"], '[Reason'' Papers, Summer 2003.</ref> Most ancaps seem to be social conservatives, but they love them some Block even though he is ''the'' most disgusting person in libertarianism today or possibly ever. At the same time, his arguments are consistent with libertarianism: extreme devotion to property and applying market logic to everything. As if he wasn’t enough of a loathsome waste of space, he was fired in 2024 for supporting [[Israel]]'s human rights violations.
* '''[[Thomas DiLorenzo]]''' (Senior faculty member and [[Lost Cause of the South|Lost Causer]]-in-chief):<ref>DiLorenzo, Thomas, [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/04/thomas-dilorenzo/lincoln-cultists-love-the-omnipotent-state/ "The Very Model of a Modern Major Lincoln Cultist"], Lew Rockwell 4.15.15. Wow, [[Abraham Lincoln|a president in 19th century had little formal education and an undiagnosed mental illness]], shock horror.</ref> Well, you know, slavery wasn't really ''that'' bad. I mean, it's not like it compares to real oppression, like paying taxes.
* '''Prince Hans-Adam II''' (Honorary member):  They're still in touch with the Austrian royal family (the Von Habsburgs) and the prince of [[Liechtenstein]]. In 2005, it was revealed that the Prince once owned Jews who were provided by the SS via the Strasshof [[Holocaust|concentration camp]]. The slaves were put to work on estates owned by Liechtenstein's Princely House.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4443809.stm "Nazi crimes taint Liechtenstein"], [[BBC]] (4/14/05 at 10:03 GMT).</ref>
* '''[[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]]''' (Distinguished Senior Fellow, founder of 
eugenist conference
 the intellectual society PFS): Einstein was wrong; HHH praxxed it out, yo.<ref>Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, ''The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy'', 287-288 (2nd edn., 2006), Ludwig von Mises Institute.</ref>
* '''[[Gary North]]''' (Contributor):  The son-in-law of R.J. Rushdoony, and one of the most explicit [[American Taliban|Talibanists in the US]] at present. Winner of the Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom
*'''[[Ron Paul]]''' (Senior Fellow): Ron Paul and just about everyone who he's associated with wants to abolish the Civil Rights Act and return to Jim Crow. He purposely cultivated an audience of Birchers and Lost Causers, along with far-right figures like [[Gary North]]. Though many were disenchanted and deceived by the soundbites of his presidential campaigns.
* '''Jaroslav Romanchuk''' (President of the Scientific Research Mises Center): Mises Global also set up an institute in Minsk (in that awful dictatorship of Belarus); Romanchuk runs that branch. Among other things, Romanchuk translated ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' into Russian and was mentor to one Andrei Illarionov, Putin's former chief economic advisor, who is currently on the [[Koch Industries|Koch Bros.]] payroll in DC.  
* '''[[Lew Rockwell]]''' (Chairman): Criminals should <big>'''RIDE THE LIGHTNING'''</big> but we need to raise our BAC standards because we drive better when we're a little buzzed. He also argues that if you aren't an anarcho-capitalist, you differ from Hitler only in the details. (Also a [[Quote mine|quote-mining]] douchebag: Sounds to us like Paul Samuelson is blaming laissez-faire economics for the rise of Hitler, ''not'' subtly praising the Nazis, as Lew Rockwell claims.)<ref>Rockwell, Llewellyn H., [https://mises.org/library/hitlers-economics "Hitler's Economics"] Mises Daily 6.28.12.</ref>
* '''[[Murray Rothbard]]''': Mises' heir. Praised David Duke, [[Joseph McCarthy]], and worked with [[Pat Buchanan]] in order to "break the clock of social democracy". Wow, after the whole "it's O.K. to starve your kids"<ref>Rothbard, Murray, ''The Ethics of Liberty'' (1982).</ref> thing we didn't think this guy could get more evil, but he found a way.
* '''Lysander Spooner''': 19th-century anarchist and one of Rothbard's heroes.  Lew Rockwell and others celebrate Spooner's defense of confederacy and secession, but leave out the, uh, vital parts of his philosophy.<ref>Spooner, Lysander, ''[https://mises.org/library/vices-are-not-crimes Vices Are Not Crimes]'' (1875), reprinted on ''Mises Daily'' w/ foreword by Murray Rothbard, 12.24.09. This one "managed to escape the editor" of Spooner's ''Collected Works''.</ref> The only thing we can conclude here is that Rockwell is mental. He knows his reservations about the 
Molestation Party
 Libertarian Party are baked into its philosophy, but he keeps reprinting articles by Spooner and Block.

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==See also==

* [[Christian economics]]

== External links ==

*[http://mises.org/ Ludwig von Mises Institute]
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