Prices
Price Deflation and Price Inflation Are Always Optimal
Subsidies, Market Prices, and the 2014 Farm Bill
2014’s new US Farm Bill eliminates many direct subsidies to farmers, while replacing them with subsidized insurance programs. This will lead to higher costs for taxpayers and distorted markets in the future.
How Third-Party Payers Drive Up Medical Costs
The modern health insurance industry, a by-product of government regulation and tax policy, has led to a system in which the consumer of medical se
Error, Equilibrium, and Equilibration in Austrian Price Theory
Theorists of the Austrian School have long maintained that every realized price is market-clearing, in sharp contrast to the adherents of the neoclassical mainstream, who view realized prices as constituting a state of disequilibrium with a mismatch between demand and supply. The heart of these theoretical differences lies in the equilibrium constructs used by the members of the two schools of thought in their analysis of price formation.
The Ethanol Industry: An Engine of Economic Destruction
In his recent Mises Daily, Dave Albin admirably elucidates th
A Simple Model of the Theory of Money Prices
Ludwig von Mises (1981; 1998) is generally and properly credited by contemporary Austrians with having reintegrated monetary theory with general economic theory from which it had been severed by the neoclassical quantity theory.
An Austrian Foundation for Microeconomic Principles
Teaching Microeconomic Principles well, a blend of good pedagogy and good economics, is the professional obligation of many economists. Since such courses are conventionally grounded in neoclassical theory,
Money, Prices, and Capital: An Austrian Approach to Macroeconomics
Austrians frequently lament the absence of an Austrian undergraduate money-macro curriculum, especially at the intermediate level.
Misesian Economics and the Response to a Price Change
This note has shown that the possibility of the income effect of a price change is implied by the Misesian pure logic of choice. This note has not assumed that our individual must consume more than four loaves of bread to survive.