Other Schools of Thought

Easy money policy hurts most people, particularly workers and savers, and redistributes their wealth to the ruling elites.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 385-412 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Enemies of laissez faire wish to saddle it with much unsavory baggage, writes Frank Chodorov.

One of Carl Menger’s contributions was his primacy of the consumer in determining value and price, not only in the marketplace but in all economic activity.

Enemies of laissez faire wish to saddle it with much unsavory baggage.

Stephen Halbrook’s new book on gun control in Nazi Germany details the step-by-step process of disarming the German population.

Thomas Piketty’s theoretical case is weak, but his supporters say, “look at all this data. The data, however, is often iffy at best and outlandish at worst.  
 

Peter Klein talks about inequality—how people are different, what determines income and wealth on the free market, why elites are so excited about Thomas Piketty's new book on capital, and how attempts to reduce aggregate inequality through progressive taxation are fraught with difficulty.

Thomas Piketty has written a popular economics book and serves up the same short-sighted, destructive policies.

There’s austerity in France, but it’s only austerity for the people while the state feasts on ever-increasing taxes.