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Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Both Frank H. Knight and Ludwig von Mises are recognized as founders of intellectual traditions: the Chicago School and the neo-Austrian School of economics, respectively.

Jesús Huerta de Soto

The practice of fractional-reserve banking is the main factor responsible for the emergence and development of the central bank. 

Xavier Méra

The law of association as espoused by David Ricardo and generalized by Ludwig von Mises cannot directly convey what is at stake in exchanges involving specialization in uncertainty bearing. 

Peter Lewin

Though little known among the economics establishment during his lifetime, Ludwig M. Lachmann was always widely connected. The range of scholars whom he knew and with whom he communicated was truly impressive.

William Barnett II Walter Block

Rothbard (1993, pp. 638–45) refuted the important economic fallacy that excess  capacity is a normal consequence of profit maximizing behavior by businesses in some industries when they are in long-run equilibrium. 

Jesús Huerta de Soto

Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism is much more than a biography of the twentieth century’s great Austrian economist.

Robert Batemarco

There seems to be a lot less disagreement between Rothbard and Rashid than meets the latter’s eye. The biggest issue on which there is a gap separating 

David Howden

Mises created an artificial construct, the evenly rotating economy (ERE), from which to ascertain the source of entrepreneurial profit and loss. In particular, the ERE is characterized by two distinct elements. 

William Barnett II

Neoclassical utility functions are an invalid means of analyzing consumer behavior for three reasons: first, and most important, because such functions, and their attendant rankings, are cardinal, not ordinal in nature; 

H.A. Scott Trask

Sumner was the product of an indigenous American hard-money tradition that embraced free markets, free trade, and sound banking

John P. Cochran

Hayek’s writings on business cycle theory; the seminal work of the 1930s and 1940s and the modifications he made in the 1970s after he received the Nobel Prize, 

Stephan Kinsella

The Structure of Liberty is an important new work by one of libertarianism's most significant and thoughtful legal scholars.  Its primary substantive deficiency is its over-reliance on the Hayekian knowledge paradigm

Guido Zimmermann

Does Structuralist unemployment theory in the spirit of Edmund S. Phelps (1994) contain Austrian elements? Austrian macroeconomics concerns itself with the intertemporal capital structure  and entrepreneurial expectations.

Paul Mastin

From Mutual Aid is not, nor does it intend to be, a comprehensive study demonstrating the superiority of private social welfare efforts over government programs.

John P. Cochran

The process of reabsorbing an economy’s various unemployed resources into new or expanding enterprises (i.e., economic recovery) potentially begins in the same moment that the discovery 

Randall G. Holcombe

The fundamental idea behind this book, as its title suggests, is that innovation is the driving force behind the remarkable growth miracle of capitalism. 

Xavier Méra

This paper explains how grants of monopolistic privileges to capitalists can lower labor and land factors’ prices compared to what would prevail in a free market environment.

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

The fundamental question we have to confront in the theory of monetary policy is therefore not whether money affects the real economy—yes it does, both in the short run and in the long run

Greg Kaza

References to the works of the economists and economic schools of thought are a relatively recent development in texts of reviews published by Federal Reserve System member banks.

Paul B. Trescott

A noteworthy feature of Murray Rothbard's monumental history of economic thought is his vigorous denunciation of Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations.