Fiscal Theory

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Affording the Unemployed

Booms and BustsU.S. EconomyFiscal TheoryInterventionism

08/18/2010Mises Daily ArticlesJonathan M. Finegold Catalan

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.

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The Rothbardian Theory of Taxes

Taxes and SpendingAustrian Economics OverviewFiscal Theory

07/31/2010Audio/VideoThomas J. DiLorenzo

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

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Welfare Economics

Big GovernmentMoney and BanksFiscal Theory

07/31/2010Audio/VideoJeffrey M. Herbener

Contrast Austrian Welfare Economics with alternative approaches including Pareto Optimality and Kaldor-Hicks. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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Privatization of Roads

Big GovernmentFree MarketsTaxes and SpendingFiscal Theory

07/31/2010Audio/VideoWalter Block

Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S. highways, and the National Traffic Safety Administration blames this on speeding, DUI, driver error, while the real problem is Sovietization of streets and roads. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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Health Economics

Big GovernmentHealthFiscal TheoryInterventionism

07/30/2010Audio/VideoTimothy D. Terrell

Discusses difficulties presented by government intervention into medical care in two parts: the problems of regulation of pharmaceuticals, and broader implications of socialist calculation problem for centralized control of medical care. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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Wealth Redistribution, Domestic and International

Big GovernmentTaxes and SpendingWar and Foreign PolicyFiscal Theory

07/30/2010Audio/VideoThomas E. Woods, Jr.

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

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An Austrian View on Monopoly and Anti-Trust Law

Austrian Economics OverviewFiscal TheoryMonopoly and Competition

07/29/2010Audio/VideoWalter Block

Austrian critique of mainstream analysis of monopoly, monopsony, and perfect competition; the logical contradictions of anti-trust law. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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The Fallacies of Public Finance

Taxes and SpendingFiscal Theory

07/29/2010Audio/VideoWalter Block

Critical examination of the claim that justification for taxation is that there is a market failure regarding public goods and externalities. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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Environmental and Resource Economics

Big GovernmentThe EnvironmentFiscal TheoryPrivate Property

07/29/2010Audio/VideoTimothy D. Terrell

Covers the problems of government intervention into pollution and natural resource use issues, emphasizing importance of private property and individual liberty in producing desirable outcomes. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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Turning Bread into Stones

Booms and BustsThe FedFiscal TheoryInterventionism

07/26/2010Mises Daily ArticlesDoug French

Combine loose money with flawed financial theories and the creation of byzantine financial products, and ultimately modern financial alchemy "has a distinctly statist and paternalist tone, and one which, taken to its logical conclusion, implies the establishment of nothing less than a world...