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Matthew McCaffrey

The only thing defense spending actually defends are the profits of defense contractors.

Matthew McCaffrey

It’s a great time to be studying entrepreneurship. Today as never before entrepreneurs are confronted with “grand challenges” both in the marketplace and society more broadly. And despite constant efforts to stifle their work, entrepreneurs rise to these challenges, thereby showing their vital role in solving some of our deepest economic and social problems. 

Peter G. Klein

Many claim that great advances in technology come primarily through government spending on research. In fact, government tech spending crowds out other innovations while favoring certain interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Christopher P. Casey

It is now commonplace for governments to measure economic prosperity with GDP metrics. Numerous arbitrary rules and faulty assumptions behind these measures, however, skew our view of how economies grow and living standards improve.

Edward W. Fuller

Garrison has given economists a useful way to illustrate Keynes’s theory, but there are two fundamental problems with Garrison’s interpretation.

Mark Thornton

The Fed has been messing with interest rates for a century and suddenly they have forgotten how to raise interest rates?

Matthew McCaffrey

For those new to Austrian economics, there are few modern scholars whose work I would recommend more enthusiastically than Salerno’s.