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Why Deflation Can Be a Good Thing

Booms and BustsInflationMonetary TheoryOther Schools of Thought

Blog03/06/2020

Brazilian journalist André de Godoy interviews economist and Mises Institute scholar Antony Mueller on the nature of money, banking, and prices.

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How Keynesian Ideas Weaken Economic Fundamentals

Other Schools of ThoughtProduction TheoryValue and Exchange

Blog02/03/2020

There is productive consumption and there is non-productive consumption. In the Keynesian mind, it's not necessary to produce anything, so long as people spend and consume endlessly, even to the point of destroying real wealth.

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The Bank of England's Governor Fears a Liquidity Trap

Money and BanksCapital and Interest TheoryMoney and BankingOther Schools of Thought

Blog01/17/2020

The demand for goods is not constrained by the amount of money, but by the production of goods and services available to trade for money.

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Why Paternalists Keep Calling Us "Irrational"

Calculation and KnowledgeOther Schools of ThoughtPraxeology

Blog01/03/2020

Central planners like Cass Sunstein think our alleged "irrationality" means we need the government to intervene in our daily lives.

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Three Arguments Debunking Marx’s Labor Theory of Value

Labor and WagesSocialismOther Schools of Thought

Blog12/21/2019

As dismissive as many of us would like to be toward Marx’s thoroughly debunked labor theory of value, it still holds currency among today’s budding socialists.

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Hazlitt's Critique of Keynes: The 60th Anniversary

Book ReviewsInterventionismOther Schools of Thought

Blog12/20/2019

Hazlitt and all of the other critics of Keynes never did get to the primary points with respect to what was wrong with Keynes. One point was theoretical. The other was practical.

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Why So Many Scholars Are Wrong About Consumer Psychology

EntrepreneurshipOther Schools of ThoughtValue and Exchange

Blog12/19/2019

The idea that people are driven by fear of losses more than they are by the potential for gain has attained a sort of dogmatic adherence among behavioral economists. But there's a problem: the theory isn't true.

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The Economic Consequences of the Peace: 100 Years Later

War and Foreign PolicyWorld HistoryOther Schools of Thought

Blog12/16/2019

John Maynard Keynes's stance on German reparations in the wake of the First World War may have precipitated the rise of Hitler.

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The Nobel Laureates Are Wrong: Of Course Financial Incentives Matter

Austrian Economics OverviewOther Schools of ThoughtValue and Exchange

Blog11/23/2019

There is a growing drumbeat from some high-profile economists to reassure Americans that large increases in income and wealth taxes won’t distort labor markets. Yet much of their arguments are very misleading.

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Austrian School vs. Law & Economics on Air Pollution

The EnvironmentOther Schools of Thought

Blog11/01/2019

The standard Austrian approach to air pollution and regulation rejects the bean-counting of winners and losers, and instead embraces a property rights approach.

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