Austrian Economics Overview

This paper analyzes the period 1867–1879 in American economic history from an "Austrian" perspective.

One of the most important books ever written is now available as a free Mises Institute audio book.

Mark Thornton and Chantal Saucier's Introduction to the new translation of Richard Cantillon's An Essay on Economic Theory.

The foreword to a new and improved translation of Cantillon’s famous work.

Here is an interesting table comparing 9 schools of economic thought.

Bettina-Bien Greaves took careful notes during Ludwig von Mises's New York seminars. Whenever he made a comment that suggested research paper or book, she jotted it down on a note card.

Demand calls forth supply in the world of economic journals as much as in the “real” economic world. The proliferation of new journals since World War II has been a function of the increasing number of Ph.D.s and of the acute exigencies of “publish or perish.” But there is another category of new journals more relevant to this one: periodicals that function as a nucleus and a sounding board for schools of economic thought partially or wholly outside the prevailing neoclassical paradigm.

The Google Ngram Viewer is used to highlight some of the ideas, nomenclature, individuals, and events that have come to comprise the Austrian tradition. Key terms and literature are also examined primarily using the English corpus, with occasional examinations using German and French corpus as well. The Ngram counts of these terms provide a useful way to gauge the success of Austrians, over time, to influence the state of economics and the popular debate.

Well, it’s a new look.