Timeline of Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Time period Development summary More details
1982–1995 Rothbard era?
1995–present Online presence forms


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Year Month and date Event type Details
1981 December Ludwig von Mises's widow Margit gives her approval to found the Mises Institute.[1]
1982 October Physical location The Mises Institute is founded by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (founding president), with Murray Rothbard as the founding vice president.[2][3][4] The institute is originally housed "in a basement room" of Auburn University but would later move to "a shed behind the football stadium".[4]
1983 Periodical The journal The Free Market launches.[5]
1986 Recurring event The first Mises University, a summer school for North American students, takes place.[3]
1987 Periodical The first issue of The Review of Austrian Economics is published.[6]
1989 Physical location The institute moves to the Auburn University business school.[4]
1993 People Margit von Mises, Ludwig von Mises's widow, dies.[1]
1995 January 7 People Murray Rothbard, head of academic programs at the Mises Institute, dies.[1]
1995 October 2 Online presence The Mises Institute domain name, mises.org, is registered on this day.[7] The website goes online sometime during the same year.[3]
1996 Physical location The institute moves to its "own place near the School of Business".[4]
1998 Physical location The Mises Institute builds a campus in Auburn, Alabama.[3] (The institute was previously also in Auburn.)
1998 Periodical The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is established. It is a continuation of The Review of Austrian Economics.[8]
1999 July 15 Online presence The Mises Institute Yahoo Group, called the Mises Scholars List, is founded. The mailing list describes itself as "a low-traffic list for news, inquiries, and limited discussion on Austrian economics".[9] (The group seems to no longer be in use.)
2000 September 15 Outside review In its summer issue of the Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center includes the Mises Institute in its list of neo-Confederate organizations.[10]
2000 October 10 Periodical The Mises Institute announces that Journal of Libertarian Studies has moved from the Center for Libertarian Studies to the Mises Institute.[11][12]
2000–2001 Physical location The Mises Institute building is extended "to accommodate the need for more library and faculty space".[1]
2002 July 29 – August 2 Recurring event Probably the first Rothbard Graduate Seminar takes place.[13]
2003 August 14 Outside review In its summer issue of the Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center includes the Mises Institute in its list of "right-wing foundations and think tanks" that "support efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable". The SPLC argues that the Mises Institute "promotes a type of Darwinian view of society in which elites are seen as natural and any intervention by the government on behalf of social justice is destructive".[14]
2006 February 22 Online presence The Mises Institute YouTube account, misesmedia, is created.[15]
2008 January 28 Online presence The Mises Institute Twitter account, mises, is created on this day.[16]
2008 Fall People Lew Rockwell and Burt Blumert ask Douglas French to work at the Mises Institute.[17]
2009 People Douglas French becomes President of the institute.[18]
2010 April Online presence Mises Academy, a series of online classes and seminars created by the Mises Institute, launches.[3][19]
2010 August 18 Online presence The Mises Wire Twitter account, MisesBlog, is created.[20]
2010 November 5 Online presence The Mises Wiki is created.[21][22]
2013 December 21 People The Mises Institute announces that Jeff Deist has joined as its new President.[23]
2014 January 25 Outside review The Mises Institute is covered in a New York Times article about Rand Paul. The article states "Some scholars affiliated with the Mises Institute have combined dark biblical prophecy with apocalyptic warnings that the nation is plunging toward economic collapse and cultural ruin. Others have championed the Confederacy."[24] Robert Wenzel responds on LewRockwell.com, criticizing the portrayal of the institute, but calls it "a great and important moment" that the New York Times is paying attention to the institute and Rockwell.[25]
2015 February 13 Periodical The Mises Institute journal The Free Market is renamed to The Austrian. The institute claims the renaming is due to the term "free market" being "diluted through overuse and misuse".[26]
2015 July 19–25 Recurring event Probably the first Virtual Mises University takes place.[27]

Numerical and visual data

Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of December 18, 2021.

Year "Mises Institute"
1982 3
1984 12
1986 18
1988 50
1990 51
1992 30
1994 41
1996 65
1998 104
2000 123
2002 200
2004 259
2006 333
2008 437
2010 659
2012 809
2014 1,060
2016 1,150
2018 1,230
2020 1,270
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Google Trends

The image below shows Google Trends data for Ludwig von Mises Institute (Search term), from January 2004 to March 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[28]

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Google Ngram Viewer

The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Ludwig von Mises Institute, from 1982 to 2019.[29]

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Wikipedia Views

The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article Ludwig von Mises Institute, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to February 2021.[30]

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Meta information on the timeline

How the timeline was built

The initial version of the timeline was written by Issa Rice.

Issa likes to work locally and track changes with Git, so the revision history on this wiki only shows changes in bulk. To see more incremental changes, refer to the commit history.

Funding information for this timeline is available.

What the timeline is still missing

  • Mises Institute has a bunch of awards, but it's difficult to include these in a timeline
  • Mises Institute holds a lot of recurring events. Including all of these would be a lot of work, but only including the inaugural events makes it seem like they aren't doing much these days. Is there a sensible way to include some subset?
  • Mises Institute publishes and republished a lot of books and interviews and such. With 656 books listed, it is not sensible to include all these publications, but how should the publications be prioritized for inclusion in the timeline? It's pretty hard to just "look for the ones most talked about" since that requires going through each and searching it up.
    • this interview lists some work; start at "Relate to me what you think the Mises Institute's greatest successes have been".
  • There are a lot of scholars that have been associated with the institute. What is a sensible policy for inclusion? Both in terms of picking whom to include and what to include (first association? official positions? etc.). Mises Institute website's bios seem pretty limited so it's pretty hard to find info even for a single individual.
  • Mises Institute people take certain positions on things, and some of these positions are what they become notorious for. But positions are difficult to order chronologically (what is the actual event?).

Timeline update strategy

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "About the Mises Institute". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  2. ↑ "About Mises". Mises Institute. June 18, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "What Is the Mises Institute?". Mises Institute. June 18, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Mises.org: Frequently Asked Questions". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  5. ↑ "The Austrian vol 1 no 1 2015_0.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  6. ↑ "Mises Institute". Mises Wiki, the global repository of classical-liberal thought. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  7. ↑ "| ICANN WHOIS". Retrieved August 22, 2017. Creation Date: 1995-10-02T04:00:00Z 
  8. ↑ "Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  9. ↑ "Yahoo! Groups : mises". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  10. ↑ "The Neo-Confederates". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  11. ↑ "The Journal of Libertarian Studies - Mises Wiki, the global repository of classical-liberal thought". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  12. ↑ "News from the Mises Institute". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  13. ↑ "Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2002". Mises Institute. June 4, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2017.  Incrementing the year produces later seminars, but there seems to not be earlier seminars than the one in 2002.
  14. ↑ Chip Berlet (August 14, 2003). "Into the Mainstream". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  15. ↑ "misesmedia". YouTube. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  16. ↑ "Mises Institute (@mises)". Twitter. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  17. ↑ "An Interview with Doug French". Mises Institute. April 30, 2010. Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  18. ↑ "Doug French - Mises Wiki, the global repository of classical-liberal thought". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  19. ↑ "Mises Academy - Mises Wiki, the global repository of classical-liberal thought". Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  20. ↑ "Mises Wire (@MisesBlog)". Twitter. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  21. ↑ "Mises Wiki, the global repository of classical-liberal thought". Retrieved August 22, 2017. Sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and founded on 5 November 2010, the repository now has 1,990 articles. 
  22. ↑ "Difference between revisions of "Main Page" - Mises Wiki, the global repository of classical-liberal thought". Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  23. ↑ "Jeff Deist Joins the Mises Institute as its New President". Mises Institute. December 21, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  24. ↑ Tanenhaus, Sam; Rutenberg, Jim (January 25, 2014). "Rand Paul's Mixed Inheritance". The New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  25. ↑ Robert Wenzel (January 28, 2014). "In Defense of the Mises Institute". LewRockwell.com. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  26. ↑ "The Free Market is now The Austrian". Mises Institute. February 13, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  27. ↑ "Virtual Mises University 2015". Mises Institute. July 7, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2017.  I haven't been able to find any earlier years this event took place.
  28. ↑ "Ludwig von Mises Institute". Google Trends. Retrieved 9 March 2021. 
  29. ↑ "Ludwig von Mises Institute". books.google.com. Retrieved 9 March 2021. 
  30. ↑ "Ludwig von Mises Institute". wikipediaviews.org. Retrieved 9 March 2021. 
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