History of the Austrian School of Economics

Former Mises Institute Fellow Jingjing Wang discusses how she discovered Austrian economics in China, and her plans for the future as an Austrian economist.

In this interview, Jing Jin, Associate Dean at the China Economics and Management Academy in Beijing, discusses how Mises and Rothbard have affected her academic work, and how Austrian economics is gaining traction in China today.

In their new book The Next Generation of Austrian Economics, editors Per Bylund and David Howden bring together a thirteen young Austrian scholars into a new volume of scholarly commentary on money, banking, capital, risk, entrepreneurship, and more.

Jonathan Newman reports from this year's Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute. As usual, this year's conference brought together some of the finest Austrian-school faculty and students from around the globe.

Today would have been the 89th birthday of Murray Rothbard. In this 1988 essay, Ron Paul explores Murray Rothbard's importance in Paul's own political career and the importance of education and scholarship in changing political realities. 

In this informative interview, Mark Thornton details how Carl Menger started the Austrian school of economics, and the possible Greek and Roman phi

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

Book Review by Greg Kaza
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics

Critics of neoliberalism and its variants including Misesianism have responded to its emergence in two distinct ways: pejoratively,1 or scholarly discourse that seeks to engage neoliberal proponents. The first approach is traceable to the Marxists Kapelush (1925) and Marcuse ([1934] 1968). This low road has been traveled more recently by Krohn (1981), Delong (2009) and Seymour (2010), who, a la Marcuse, smear Mises as pro-fascist when government and private archives show the Austrian worked with U.S. intelligence against Italian fascism and German Nazism in the World War II era.

John Cochran discusses his career as an economist and how the academic world has changed for Austrians in recent decades.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of Murray Rothbard.