Health Economics (Drugs, Body Parts Markets and Socialized Medicine)
Recorded at Mises University 2004.
Austrian Economics Overview
Displaying 1651 - 1660 of 2005
The Austrian Theory of Subjective Value: A Philosopher’s View
Recorded at the Mises Institute on 15 June 2005.
The Best Book on Money Ever Written
What's the best book on money ever written? That's an easy one: What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard. The Mises Institute is bringing out a new edition, and uniting it with Rothbard's radical blueprint for monetary reform. You can help.
10. The Gold Standard in Theory and Myth
The mythology of gold really grew up with Keynes and the quantity theory. Here are six of those myths: the gold standard is unable to accommodate the needs of an growing economy; the quantity of money is arbitrarily determined; the gold standard is a government price fixing scheme; the gold standard subjects a country to alternating inflation and deflation; the gold standard requires high costs devoted to resources; and the gold standard results in high interest rates.
9. Money and Gold in the 1920s and 1930s: Defending the Rothbardian Position
Friedman’s book, Monetary History of the United States, tried to show the depression was caused by a deflation of the money supply by the Fed. Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression was published the next year in 1963. Rothbard argued that the Fed was actively inflating the money supply.
