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What Happens When Central Banks Attempt to Tighten? Even More Resource Misallocation

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Blog05/13/2022

Popular economic wisdom says central banks can counter harmful effects of inflation by raising interest rates. Unfortunately, such moves carry their own forms of misallocation of resources and capital.

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What Determines Interest Rates? Comparing Mainstream Economics to the Austrian School

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Blog04/29/2022

The typical mainstream economic view of interest rates ignores an important factor: individual time preferences.

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Economic Theory Begins with Human Action, Not Data Sets

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Blog04/25/2022

Austrian economics begins with logical deductions made from what we know about human action, not data sets that are subject to change.

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Are Equal Pay Arguments Based upon the Labor Theory of Value?

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Blog04/19/2022

Arguments for equal pay are popular in our body politic, but what happens if some of those arguments are based upon the faulty logic of the labor theory of value?

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Jordan Peterson on Austrian Economics: Free Markets Are "Profoundly Equitable"

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Blog04/18/2022

Jordan Peterson is turning his eye toward Austrian economics. Unlike the many conservatives who see free market advocacy as some sort of "dangerous fundamentalism," Peterson seems to get it.

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Quantitative Methods Are Incomplete When Used for Economic Analysis

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Blog03/09/2022

Modern economics claims that quantitative methods are central to understanding economic analysis. Mises demonstrated why this belief is untrue.

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What the New Nobel Winners Get Wrong about Economics

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Blog10/12/2021

The new Nobel winners apparently think we can discover economic laws by crunching numbers. That's not how it works.

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Milton Friedman's Methodological Mistake

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Blog04/30/2021

Key methodological differences between Austrians were highlighted in Milton Friedman's "The Methodology of Positive Economics." A key piece of conflict: Friedman's focus on prediction rather than explanation.

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State-Mandated Vaccines Are a Moral Minefield

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Blog02/13/2021

Forcing one person to take medication or vaccines for the benefit of another person is directly opposed to basic notions of self-ownership and human rights. 

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