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Why Everyone Should Read These Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises

Austrian Economics OverviewInterventionism

Blog09/27/2021

The public must come to a fuller understanding that without private property there is no liberty; that there is no safe middle of the road; and that we citizens are engaged in a constant struggle with government over how much of our own property, and of the fruits of our own labor, we will be...

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Study Guide to the Jordan Peterson – Robert Murphy Podcast

Media and CultureAustrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog09/02/2021

Robert Murphy's interview with Jordan Peterson featured a fast and exciting conversation with lots of references to books, articles, and other Austrian scholarship. This study guide offers citations and explanations for that may have gone by too quickly for the audience.

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Hoppe's The Great Fiction, Expanded Second Edition—Now Available

Austrian Economics Overview

Blog03/16/2021

The second edition of The Great Fiction will be welcomed by all readers interested in the theoretical foundations of a free society.

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Debunking Seven Common Criticisms of Austrian Economics

Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog11/25/2020

If people want to dismiss this school of thought, which many seem inclined to do for political (not theoretical) reasons, at least they should do so based on facts and knowledge, not on falsehoods.

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My Path to the Austrian School of Economics

Austrian Economics OverviewHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

Blog12/06/2019

There is no more stopping the Mises School. And when the truth finally wins out, because only what is true can also work smoothly in the long run, then the hour of the Austrian School of Economics will have come.

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The Nobel Laureates Are Wrong: Of Course Financial Incentives Matter

Austrian Economics OverviewOther Schools of ThoughtValue and Exchange

Blog11/23/2019

There is a growing drumbeat from some high-profile economists to reassure Americans that large increases in income and wealth taxes won’t distort labor markets. Yet much of their arguments are very misleading.

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Why Austrian School Economists Have a Better Understanding of Goods and Services

Austrian Economics OverviewOther Schools of ThoughtValue and Exchange

Blog10/24/2019

What makes a good a good is not the physical thing itself, but the value we find in it because it is serviceable toward some valued end.

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Sixtieth Anniversary of Hazlitt's The Failure of the 'New Economics'

Austrian Economics OverviewOther Schools of Thought

Blog07/27/2019

Henry Hazlitt's The Failure of the "New Economics" published in 1959, is still the best refutation of Keynesian economics to be found anywhere — sixty years later.

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Austrian Business Cycle Theory, Explained

Booms and BustsAustrian Economics OverviewBusiness Cycles

Blog07/09/2019

The “boom-bust” cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business. 

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Why It's Important to Understand "Economic Costs"

Austrian Economics OverviewSubjectivismValue and Exchange

Blog06/20/2019

The concept of economic cost seems to confuse people. It is not the price you pay for a good, but the reason you pay it.

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