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Greg Kaza

Greg Kaza reviews Brian Domitrovic's The Emergence of Arthur Laffer. Alienated from academia during the stagflation era, Laffer was able to reach policymakers by presenting his ideas in a simple way, such as with his famous napkin Laffer curve.

Emric Egbert

Economics, at its core, is the study of cause-and-effect relationships—analyzing how scarce resources, which have alternative uses, are allocated.

Frank Shostak

Mainstream economists claim that they can use econometric models to emulate human action and, thus, create an economic laboratory. These models, however, cannot tell us about cause-and-effect, which is vital to understanding praxeology and economic behavior.

Joshua Mawhorter

In examining the Austrian regression theorem of money, Joshua Mawhorter takes on the chartalist/MMT claim that government gives money its value. The chartalist/MMT advocates lack a necessary cause-and-effect mechanism to prove their claims.