Reassessing the U.S. Presidency October 16-17, 1998 Callaway Gardens and Warm Springs, Georgia The worst of the allegations against the president are alarming. But American history is littered with examples of abuses of executive power that go well beyond personal corruption. Where can you go in the library to find the truth about the havoc U.S.
Auburn University | August 1- 8, 1998 The Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics. Since 1984, it has been the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream. Rooted in the tradition of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, the Mises University offers a rigorous
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The new issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (Summer 1998), the flagship scholarly journal of the Mises Institute, features a never-before-published article by Ludwig von Mises entitled “Monopoly Prices.” The manuscript, kept in the Grove City College Archives, is marked “Revised, July 1944.” It is his most in-depth treatment of
One year before the Nazi takeover of Austria, and after Mises had already accepted a research position in Geneva, a remarkable book began to circulate in what remained of Vienna’s intellectual circles. It was Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft , The Economics of the Free Society by Wilhelm Röpke. If the Austrian economists had a textbook on economic
Human Action: The Scholar’s Edition Fifty years ago, Ludwig von Mises shocked the economics profession and elite opinion with a massive, revolutionary treatise on economics, the culmination of his life’s work. It was (and remains) the most comprehensive, systematic, forthright, and powerful defense of the economics of liberty ever written. It
In 1990, Murray N. Rothbard was interviewed by the Austrian Economics Newsletter . He discusses economic method, contemporary theoretical trends, the intersection between economic theory and policy, and the prospects for the Austrian School. To read the interview, click here . Under “periodicals,” you will find many more outstanding interviews in
Neoclassical economists in recent years have cited holiday gift giving as an example of inefficiency resulting in social loss. Why? Because the giver cannot know the preferences of the receiver, and is likely to buy something he does not really want. Instead of giving gifts, say these theorists, we should exchange cash, or, better yet, just keep
In the current antitrust hysteria, American Airlines is being “accused” by the Justice Department of cutting fares and increasing service to consumers, and thereby outcompeting smaller airlines. Why this is an accusation as versus a simple description of the competitive process is explained in Dominick Armentano’s outstanding new book: Antitrust:
The Free Market 16, no. 1 (January 1998) When the IMF declares a country an “economic miracle,” look out. A financial crisis cannot be far behind. First it was Japan, the juggernaut that was said to be on the verge of supplanting the U.S. as an economic superpower. Then it was Mexico, the model of how former banana republics can be transformed
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