A free market is just people making voluntary exchanges. Woods makes an example out of the creation of a ham sandwich. Welfare and warfare undermine the natural economic harmony of large scale social cooperation - the free market.
Austrian economists do have a realistic way of looking at human action. A policy of getting further into debt when you are already deeply in debt just doesn't make sense to them.
"The conference on Austrian economics was planned as a catalyst for expanding interest in the praxeological approach. To this end, the conference must be declared a resounding success."
"Recognizing the inability of their sophisticated models to predict or even explain the financial collapse and subsequent Great Recession, leading macroeconomic theorists of the day have lapsed back into raw and simplistic Keynesianism."
Recorded March 12, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Recorded March 12, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Recorded March 12, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Recorded March 12, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
