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MESSAGE FROM

THE PRESIDENT

Education and scholarly research in the Austrian The Mises Circle
tradition have always been the mission of the Mises outreach program was
Institute and we continued to devote our energies very busy spreading
and resources to them in 2023 . the word at events
in Birmingham,
The Mises Institute has become the preeminent
educational institution in the world for Austrian Nashville, Tampa,
economics in the Misesian-Rothbardian tradition Fort Myers, Reno,
thanks to all of you . Our flagship program, Mises and Windham, New
University, was a great success, with students from all Hampshire . All of
over the world devouring the lectures and relishing these events were well attended and packed venues .
the informal discussions with faculty . For many of People came to hear about medical freedom, the
them Mises University is a life-changing intellectual oxymoronic phrase “military intelligence,” property
experience, as Tom Woods, Bob Murphy, Peter and and civilization, the proper way to think about
Sandy Klein, Patrick Newman, and myriad other economics, and, of course, the foibles of the Fed .
Mises University alumni can attest .
We at the Mises Institute live by the belief expressed
The Rothbard Graduate Seminar and the Research by Mises himself that “economics is the philosophy
Fellows program cultivated some of the most of human life and action and concerns everybody
promising young Austrian scholars with an intense and everything . It is the pith of civilization and
examination of the works of Murray Rothbard and of man’s human existence . . . . Everybody thinks
assisted them in developing their own research . Your of economics whether he is aware of it or not .”
donations to programs like these are investments in Philosophy, theology, novels, plays, and more are
the future of Austrian economics, and literally in the always at least partially about economics, he said .
future of freedom itself . Our job is to educate as many as we can reach with

This year the Institute’s Senior Fellows, Fellows, real economics—economics in the Austrian tradition,
and Associated Scholars continued to further as opposed to the mainstream propaganda found
Austrian thought by conducting new research . in university economics classrooms and the fog of
Many of them presented their scholarly papers at economic misinformation that comes from the state
the Austrian Economics Research Conference . The and its armies of rent-seeking special-interest groups .
AERC is arguably the most intense and productive An important part of that job will always involve what
exchange of Austrian ideas in the world . Each year Mises called “unmasking” the fallacies of socialism,
the highlights of the conference are the Ludwig von
Mises, Murray N . Rothbard, Henry Hazlitt, F .A . Hayek, inflationism, and interventionism in general . Murray
and Ralph Raico Memorial Lectures . Thank you for Rothbard, in his own special way, called it a process of
helping to make these superb presentations—live “de-bamboozling!” This is the Institute’s accepted job:
streamed and archived—possible . to unmask and de-bamboozle .

Our media outreach was especially powerful in 2023 . I am especially proud of the fact that our 2023
Mises .org received more than nine million views from Members set a record for contributions . On top of
over 3 .2 million individual users . I consider it to be the that, Charity Navigator gave us a 99 percent four-star
best economics and libertarian website in the world, rating, informing donors and potential donors that
thanks to your help . “You can give to them with confidence .” With your
help, we will continue Mises and Rothbard’s work .
Our YouTube videos had 2 .3 million views, and Human Thank you for your generous support!
Action was downloaded 511,514 times! Our video “The
True Fossil Fuel Crisis” had an astounding 386,898 views . —Thomas J . DiLorenzo

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