Austrian Economics Overview

From The Failure of the “New Economics”. Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

The entrepreneur is the major risk bearer. Business return on capital is long run profits or losses. Real rate of interest is determined by time preferences. Government contracts are cost plus. Medical costs are higher because supply is so restricted by government intervention.

From The Failure of the “New Economics”. Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

From The Failure of the “New Economics”. Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

From The Failure of the “New Economics”. Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

Rothbard considers how prices are determined by supply and demand on the free market. All long shortages are caused by government interventions. Forecasting is not possible. Economics is not an objective science.

From The Failure of the “New Economics”. Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

What causes business cycles? Keynesians say the cycles happen because the free market economy does not spend enough. Thus, pump spending in. Additionally, Keynesians say that animal spirits cause these cycles. Government must fix things. Nobody could understand Keynes' General Theory. What was simply obscure was wrongly considered deep.

From The Failure of the “New Economics”. Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

Starting with Crusoe economics, Rothbard builds the economic concepts which can be developed by this analogy. These concepts are the axiom of human action. Among them are: man acts, man acts by virtue of his existence, man acts with purposeful behavior,...