Fiscal Theory

"As a response to the actions of the Bank of England, the Currency School proposed a simple, yet powerful limitation on the bank: a 100-percent reserve requirement on the issue of new bank notes."

Discarding the possibility of a change in public labor policy, the only means of restoring equilibrium in the labor market is through a sustainable increase in aggregate demand for labor — an increase in private investment.

In defense of tax loopholes and other things that horrify “mainstream” economists. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S.

Contrast Austrian Welfare Economics with alternative approaches including Pareto Optimality and Kaldor-Hicks. Recorded at Mises Universi

Discusses difficulties presented by government intervention into medical care in two parts: the problems of regulation of pharmaceuticals, and broa

Problems of international development aid and the domestic welfare state. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Austrian critique of mainstream analysis of monopoly, monopsony, and perfect competition; the logical contradictions of anti-trust law.

Critical examination of the claim that justification for taxation is that there is a market failure regarding public goods and externalities.

Covers the problems of government intervention into pollution and natural resource use issues, emphasizing importance of private property and indiv