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Javier Milei: Röpke Prize winner 2025

Javier Milei: Röpke Prize winner 2025

Liberal Institute
Javier Milei, President of Argentina, was awarded with the Röpke Prize from the Liberal Institute.
Kloten, January 24, 2025 - The Liberal Institute has awarded this year's Röpke Prize for Civil Society to Javier Milei for his…
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Javier Milei receives the Röpke Prize for Civil Society from the Liberal Institute on January 24

Javier Milei receives the Röpke Prize for Civil Society from the Liberal Institute on January 24

Liberal Institute
In front of 600 participants, the Argentinian president is honored for his pioneering role.
The Liberal Institute is awarding this year's Röpke Prize for Civil Society to Javier Milei for his pioneering role in the fight…
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Are we in the midst of a turning point?

Are we in the midst of a turning point?

Olivier Kessler
It seems more and more people in the West are coming to realize that we are on the wrong track.
The decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall have been, from a freedom perspective, largely disheartening. Since then, the West…
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The New Era of Digital Money

The New Era of Digital Money

Olivier Kessler
The Blockchain-Trilemma has been solved. Now is the time to tell everyone about it.
In a world where centralized control over money and the economy is increasingly questioned, a new technology is taking center…
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Restoring Science and the Rule of Law

Restoring Science and the Rule of Law

Michael Esfeld and Cristian Lopez
How to reverse the current trend towards a new, specifically postmodern totalitarianism?
Romantic historians in the nineteenth century were keen to claim that Modernity had tainted (if not perverted) centuries of pure…
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Western Civilization Declaration

Western Civilization Declaration

Liberal Institute
What are the signposts for a just, peaceful and prosperous future?
With the following Western Civilization Declaration, our intention is to make a strong case in the public for the foundations of…
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Why I am Not a Neoliberal

Why I am Not a Neoliberal

Phillip W. Magness
Today, anyone to the right of Joseph Stalin is labeled a "neoliberal". The term is useless.
At a time when many movements that are thought to be the intellectual mainstream, left and right, advocate further encroachments…
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Alternatives to financial repression

Alternatives to financial repression

Olivier Kessler
The new technological developments in the field of cryptocurrencies offer hope.
When it comes to financial privacy, property rights protection and self-determination, it is well known that dark times have…
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Will AI Make a Planned Economy Feasible?

Will AI Make a Planned Economy Feasible?

Timothy Taylor
The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited.
The “socialist calculation debate” happened in the 1920s and 1930s. The economics profession was developing a vision of the…
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Florida’s reasonable response to Hurricane Idalia

Florida’s reasonable response to Hurricane Idalia

Richard W. Rahn
A major hurricane hit Florida last week, and only one person died directly — amazing!
The lesson is that mankind can engineer its way out of most of the adverse effects of climate change or spend billions and…
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Malthus and the misallocation of capital

Malthus and the misallocation of capital

Alexander M. Ineichen
The prophets of ecological doom commit the same mistake time and again.
Thomas Malthus, an economist and demographer from the 18th century, held the belief that a doomsday scenario was imminent due to…
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LI-Event «Capitalism, Socialism and War»

LI-Event «Capitalism, Socialism and War»

Liberal Institute
Is interventionism or free markets to blame for wars? What should be done to reduce the risk of wars?
Under capitalism, war is the continuation of corporate competition by other means, socialists claim. There is a direct connection…
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The open society and its new enemies

The open society and its new enemies

Michael Esfeld
LI-BRIEFING. If fundamental rights are transformed into privileges, our freedom is abolished.
Like after the Second World War, we face today once again a choice between freedom and totalitarianism, namely between an open…
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Science and Enlightenment in the Corona Crisis

Science and Enlightenment in the Corona Crisis

Michael Esfeld
LI-BRIEFING. The damage done by the anti-corona measures far exceeds the benefits.
There is no sound scientific justification for the attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus through central state planning…
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Why the Best Form of Regulation is Competition

Why the Best Form of Regulation is Competition

Anthony Evans
LI-PAPER. Regulation is necessary. The question is, however, who can perform this task best.
Government regulations typically cause new problems, such as unforeseen consequences and side-effects, which in turn make new…
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