Austrian Economics Overview

It was another volatile week for stocks, Canada slipped into recession, and we’re left wondering if central banks will let interest rates rise in the face of a weakened global economy.

Economics is not a popular topic among the general population. When economics is discussed at all, it’s in the context of politics — and politics gives us only the blandest, safest, most meaningless platitudes about economic affairs. The 2016 campaigns will be no different.

John Mueller believes economics is fatally flawed because it cannot account for charitable love between persons.

I suggest that further research is needed before we can establish the conditions under which the value of personal gifts can adequately be calculated.

Murray Rothbard told us that liberty is what allows human flourishing, that liberty requires private property rights and the non aggression principle (NAP), and that this nation was conceived in liberty.

Recorded at Mises University 2015, Tom discusses the impact that Mises has had on his life, his time as a summer fellow at the Mises Institute, and

Includes comments and an introduction by Jeff Deist. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2015.

Learn the fundamentals of the Austrian school.

Learn the fundamentals of the Austrian school.

Learn the fundamentals of the Austrian school.