This pioneering work by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, professor of economics at the University of Angers in France and the author of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism , is the first full study of a critically important issue today: the ethics of money production. There is a reason that this book has been translated to Chinese, German, Spanish, Czech,
[Also available in HTML format .] This monograph addresses a critically important issue: the prevailing view that deflation (falling prices and/or falling money stock) is a catastrophe that must be stopped. Jorg Guido Hulsmann shows that deflation is nothing to fear. The government should permit it to happen as a path to economic recovery and even
Recorded during the 2008 Mises University, Jeffrey Tucker interviews leading Austrian Economists on the topic of Henry Hazlitt’s classic book Economics in One Lesson . This is the ninth in a series of twelve interviews with leading Austrian Economists discussing each chapter of Hazlitt’s
The former St Louis Fed president, William Poole, now consultant for California-based Merk Investments, made an interesting statement on the Fed policy tradition. In an interview with Germany’s n° 1 daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Poole stated: In historical perspective inflation is a means to diminish the stress felt by debtors. The
[Also available in HTML format .] This monograph addresses a critically important issue: the prevailing view that deflation (falling prices and/or falling money stock) is a catastrophe that must be stopped. Jorg Guido Hulsmann shows that deflation is nothing to fear. The government should permit it to happen as a path to economic recovery and even
He talked to her after dinner, and they went to a dance club. Apparently Mises was a poor dancer -- at least by Margit’s standards -- and so they spent most of the night talking. Actually she did most of the talking and he listened attentively. Margit was an attractive woman of five-foot-four, with brown hair and grey-blue eyes. Now, as they
Richard von Strigl and the Great Depression Strigl, The Man Strigl’s Place in the Austrian School Fundamental Economic Concepts Strigl’s Theory of the Macroeconomy Some Observations on Strigl’s Analysis Conclusion Notes I . Richard von Strigl and the Great Depression The 1920s and 1930s were a glorious era in the history of the Austrian School
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