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As Murray Rothbard’s views on individual liberty progressed, he increasingly embraced men like Richard Weaver and John Randolph, who both stressed the importance of private property rights and political decentralization.

Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto gives his acceptance speech of Argentina’s Order of May for Merit Award this year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Among the criticisms of capitalism is that it supposedly creates meaningless jobs created by villainous capitalists to keep people docile. However, it is state power and regulation that makes many jobs little more than meaningless make work.

New scholarly work is appearing regularly in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Libertarian Studies. Here is a sampling of recently published articles.

In this issue of The Misesian, we pay tribute to the great libertarian historian Ralph Raico, and in this review, I would like to discuss the views of another historian, one who was most definitely not a libertarian, but whose work Raico knew and respected.

Transformative experiences are the goal of Mises University. We take undergraduate students under our wing for one week and introduce them to Austrian economics. Next year will be the 40th anniversary of Mises University, and we plan to make it unforgettable.

It is this support network that has emerged through the Mises Institute that’s really important. We feel like we’re all alone, but having that support network is great because it tells you that you’re not alone, that there are other people doing the same thing, and that we’re rooting for you.

During Mises University, Ryan McMaken interviewed Dr. Joseph Salerno on a live episode of Radio Rothbard. The topic was “What Makes the Austrian School Different?” This article is a selection from the 30-minute interview with Dr. Salerno.

In 2004, Ralph Raico, presented a 10-hour lecture series on the history of political thought. “History: The Struggle for Liberty” and attempted to present a concise summary of the more than 400 years of political thought that underlies the political ideology of laissez-faire.