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Practice Makes Parfit

Philosophy

05/12/2023Friday Philosophy
David Edmonds has made Derek Parfit’s ideas accessible to a wide audience at last.
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Quantitative Easing to Infinity and Beyond

Central BanksCronyism and CorporatismMoney and Banking

04/27/2023The Austrian
Every bank in America lines up to receive free money from America’s central bank. The Fed will eventually expand its balance sheet by trillions of dollars more, and they’ll tell us that it would have been worse if it weren’t for the Fed.
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The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency

Cronyism and CorporatismSocialismStrategy

04/27/2023The Austrian
Understanding and practicing economics is the key to destroying the foundations of democratic socialism. This can only be achieved by insight into better ideas, and by reason. The Global Currency Plot is meant as a contribution to help the better ideas prevail.
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From the Publisher March–April 2023

Fiscal Theory

04/27/2023The Austrian
Perhaps our most important job at the Mises Institute is to help intelligent lay audiences understand and fight political money. To that end we offer a brilliant new book by Dr. Thorsten Polleit, The Global Currency Plot. The book is a tour de force and we’ve excerpted some of the most...
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An American Originalist

Book ReviewsLegal SystemU.S. History

04/26/2023The Austrian
Despite his mistakes, Scalia was an impressive figure who showed himself more than a match for the left-wing elites who dominate the major law schools. The intelligence and wit manifested in his opinions made him one of the major jurists in the history of the Supreme Court, and if we must sometimes...
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Why the Worst Get on Top

Politics

03/19/2023Articles of Interest
The unscrupulous are likely to be more successful in a society tending toward totalitarianism.
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Ludwig von Mises's Monetary Theory in Light of Modern Monetary Thought

Monetary Theory

02/22/2023Review of Austrian Economics, Volumes 1-10
Ludwig von Mises's contributions to the development of the technical methods and apparatus of monetary theory continue to be neglected today, despite the fact that Mises succeeded exactly eight decades ago, while barely out of his twenties, in a task that still admittedly defies the best efforts of...
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rae8_1_4_2.pdf

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The "True" Money Supply: A Measure of the Supply of the Medium of Exchange in the U.S. Economy

Money and BanksMoney and Banking

02/06/2023Austrian Economics Newsletter
Measures of the U.S. money stock in current use are flawed precisely because they are not based on an explicit and coherent theoretical conception of the essential nature of money.
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aen_6_4_1987.pdf

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The Price of Time

Capital and Interest Theory

01/31/2023The Austrian
Jeff and Edward Chancellor discuss The Price of Time and delve into the all-important topic of market-set interest rates as an important indicator of a healthy society, and why manipulating them is so harmful. The current system isn't working, so what can be done?
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From the Publisher January–February 2023

LanguageMedia and Culture

01/31/2023The Austrian
We want stuff now, we want happiness now, we want that vacation or car or trinket now. This is simple human nature. But we also have the capacity to plan and prepare for the future. This innate human desire to improve our material circumstances in the future is the driver of all economic growth.
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