I often think of the great Henry Hazlitt, a hero and supporter of the Mises Institute. He was a tireless voice of reason. He once said at a Mises birthday celebration, “We have a duty to speak even more clearly and courageously, to work hard, and to keep fighting this battle while the strength is still in us. Even those of us who have reached and passed our 70th birthdays cannot afford to rest on our oars and spend the rest of our lives dozing in the Florida sun. The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of liberty, which means the future of civilization.”

Henry Hazlitt never retired to the beach, and his great voice, once described by Mises as “the economic conscience of our country and our nation,” lives on at the Mises Institute. He was a founding member of our board. Today we publish his books and articles. In fact, we printed 100,000 copies of his classic Economics in One Lesson and gave them to students and many others. It has been a life-changing read for thousands of people.

Hazlitt loved our flagship program, Mises University. This year we had 100 smart and dedicated students attend. Over the years, a total of 4,650 students have graduated from the program.

Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics. Since 1986, it has been the training ground for college and university students who are looking beyond the mainstream. Students are taught about competition, value and utility, money and banking, business cycles, entrepreneurship, method, economic history, the philosophy of science, financial economics, and more.

Classes are interspersed with lively seminars, faculty panels, and special presentations. The discussions go way into the night. I’m not sure these students sleep!

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