Mises Institute - 25th Anniversary Rothbard Graduate Seminar (2024)

The core text for RGS 2024 is Human Action. This year not only marks the 75th anniversary of this Human Action, but also the 25th anniversary of the Rothbard Graduate Seminar. 

Human Action is Ludwig von Mises's masterful treatise on economics and serves as one of the Mises Institute's guiding texts. Mises's ideas in Human Action reignited the Austrian tradition in the 20th century, giving it strong methodological foundations and new clarity and emphasis on praxeology, economic calculation, the division of labor, money, business cycles, and interventionism. The book continues to inspire and inform scholars in their research today.

Welcoming remarks and discussions take place over dinner Sunday, June 9. Sessions begin Monday morning, June 10, and end Friday afternoon, June 14.

Scholarship application deadline is March 22, with decisions communicated to all applicants by April 5.

Scholarships include study materials, meals, accommodations with arrival Sunday, June 9 and departure Saturday, June 14 (accommodation location will be emailed to accepted students). Students are responsible for the cost of transportation to Auburn. Most people fly into Atlanta airport, 100 miles north of Auburn, and use Groom Transportation for shuttle service between Atlanta and Auburn. There are no shuttles to Auburn from airports other than Atlanta. Shuttle reservations can be made after you receive information on the accommodation location. 

About us

The Mises Institute exists 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. These great thinkers developed praxeology, a deductive science of human action based on premises known with certainty to be true, and this is what we teach and advocate. Our scholarly work is founded in Misesian praxeology, and in self-conscious opposition to the mathematical modeling and hypothesis-testing that has created so much confusion in neoclassical economics.

We are especially guided by their most important books: Mises, Human Action; Theory of Money and Credit; Socialism; Liberalism; and Theory and History. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State With Power and Market; America's Great Depression; An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought; The Ethics of Liberty.

Founded in 1982 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., with the blessing and aid of Margit von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, Henry Hazlitt, and Ron Paul, the Institute seeks a free-market capitalist economy and a private-property order that rejects taxation, monetary debasement, and a coercive state monopoly of protective services.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, the Institute works with students and scholars from many countries, and reaches out to business leaders, professionals, and everyone else interested in our mission. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.