History of the Austrian School of Economics

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Gerard N. Casey

The Scholastics were constrained in their development of economics by considerations of deference to authority and by the relatively slow development of the external economic conditions upon which to reflect.

Gerreth Bloor

Yoram Hazony’s critique of Hayek highlights interesting fissures in theories of political economy on the Right.

Ludwig von Mises

There is a persistent myth that capitalism has destroyed what would have been a natural abundance and peace of mind. Yet nature does not generate abundance or peace. The characteristic mark of the "state of nature" is irreconcilable conflict. 

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Bastiat’s great themes — harmony rather than equilibrium, property versus spoliation, and property and value — have been almost completely neglected in professional economic science during the unfortunate twentieth century.

Roger W. Garrison

The so-called "art of central banking" lies in picking the "right" target interest rate. But, there's no way to know the "correct" rate without giving markets freedom from central bankers.

Murray N. Rothbard

Oskar Lange was a Marxist economist and intellectual opponent of Mises. Late in his career, he sought to merge praxeology and Marxism. 

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Among the fallacies Mises debunked in his first book were those of the chartalists - the predecessors of Modern Monetary Theory.