Value and Exchange
Alleged Absence of Depressions Under Totalitarianism
If the dictator invests more and thus curtails the means available for current consumption, the people must eat less and hold their tongues.
Mercantilism in England
Seeing the rise of effective new competition, the older artisans and manufacturers turned to the state apparatus to try to shackle the efficient up
A Society of Mutual Benefactors
Anyone who champions the well-being of society should especially celebrate commercial centers, stock markets, international trade, and every sector
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
France’s absolutism and strictly enforced mercantilism put it out of the running as a leading nation in industrial or economic growth, despit
Thank Goodness for Capitalism
There are thousands of people around the world wishing to live in the average American household, where bread is just a fraction of one’s inc
The Nature of Interest
Men are always forced to choose between satisfaction in nearer and remoter periods of the future.
Did Rothbard “Borrow” the Income and Substitution Effects?
Caplan's claim that the value-scale approach is inadequate for explaining these effects is simply an incorrect interpretation of Professor Rothbard's theoretical framework.
The West’s Available Capital Goods
Economics is about human choice and action. The praxeological concept of time is not the concept of physics or biology.
Copernicus and the Quantity Theory of Money
Copernicus became the first person to set forth clearly the “quantity theory of money,” the theory that prices vary directly with the s