Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Rothbard was dissatisfied with the popular schools of thought until he discovered Austrian economics.
Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Rothbard was dissatisfied with the popular schools of thought until he discovered Austrian economics.
Some non-economic arguments made by pronatalists are very good. But when it comes to economics, pronatalists often get it very wrong.
Before he revolutionized economics, Rothbard mastered the mainstream. Salerno traces Rothbard's path from neoclassical insider to Austrian iconoclast.
In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at the methodology of Timothy Williamson. While Williamson might not like the implication, Dr. Gordon notes that Williamson‘s methodology can be used to defend the epistemological views of Murray Rothbard.
Joshua Mawhorter joins us to talk about how the fiat-money theories of Modern Monetary Theory and chartalism aren't supported by the historical facts.
Influenced by the writings of the great Frederic Bastiat, Vilfredo Pareto promoted free markets and economic liberalism in 19th-century Europe. Pareto also made a number of important contributions to economic theory and practice.
Marxism has seeped into politics, education, and religion—reducing human action to class and race. Mises offers a more accurate understanding of how humans act.
Modern neoclassical economics is based upon the physical sciences, which Austrian economists recognize is an inappropriate way to explain economic phenomena. Ludwig von Mises recognized this fraudulence, calling it “scientism.”
Nominalist ideas influenced the scientific revolution, shaping its departure from metaphysics, its mechanistic perspective, and the mathematization of all sciences. This paradigm has brought about some errors in economic thinking.
