History of the Austrian School of Economics

To draw insights from all sources is to create the kind of diversity that makes for a vibrant and productive intellectual paradigm and an endlessly fascinating website erected in the defense of liberty.

"Savings are an indispensable prerequisite for increases in productivity that involve lengthening the structure of production."

The Austrian, broad approach to the study of social reality is something which legal theorists could very much benefit from.

In reality, money is as easily supplied by the free market as any other good.

"Ludwig von Mises was, first and foremost, an economist and social scientist who built an entire intellectual system from a very simple principle: man acts."

Politicians, bureaucrats, regulators, modern financial commentators, Nobel Prize–winning economists and central bankers have proven they lack any knowledge of what money is and what causes business cycles.

The gold standard protects the monetary system from the influence of governments as the quantity of gold in existence is utterly independent of the wishes and manipulations of government officials and politicians, parties and pressure groups.

Government jobs offer no opportunity for the display of personal talents and gifts.

The myth of the Great Depression being caused by laissez-faire capitalism — and being solved by either the New Deal, World War II, or both — is so prevalent that in popular-opinion surveys, Franklin Delano Roosevelt routinely appears in the top five of all US presidents, while the name of Herbert Hoover has become synonymous with government inaction during an economic crisis.

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mises Institute founder Lew Rockwell, and discusses the Murray Rothbard festschrift, published in 1986 in honor of Rothba