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Joseph T. Salerno

Our hope in publishing this symposium is to assist other instructors in teaching Austrian macroeconomics at the intermediate level and to inspire those who are inclined and equipped to contribute publications 

Nikolay Gertchev

This three-volume collection, edited by William Rees-Mogg and published in 2002 by Pickering and Chatto presents, in more than 949 pages, essays and excerpts from books written by 19 of the most remarkable 

Robert P. Murphy

The standard view of the socialist calculation debate is that Mises and Hayek at best demonstrated the  practical impossibility of socialist economy,

Ludwig von Mises

The substitution of a monopoly price for a competitive price is tantamount to a serious restriction of the working of the most characteristic principle of the free enterprise system, i.e., of the sovereignty  of the consumers.

Kenneth A. Zahringer

Monetary disequilibrium theory has some common ground with Austrian economics, but there is substantial disagreement regarding the analysis of business cycles.

Robert Higgs

Butler Shaffer's well-written monograph, In Restraint of Trade, describes in extensive detail why and how most businessmen pleaded for the government to tame them between the end of World War I and the eve of World War II. 

Mark Thornton

In terms of the domestic economy, the established history of English liberation and French stagnations still holds, but War, Wine, and Taxes: 

Timothy D. Terrell

Binary economics is a theory of economic growth that places emphasis upon the distribution of capital, rather than the quantity of capital or the productivity of labor. 

Malavika Nair

Selgin (2009) questions the practicality of 100 percent reserve requirements applied to small change. He interprets the private coinage of small change in 18th century England as embodying fiduciary media

John P. Cochran

It is important that Austrians continue in their endeavor to convince colleagues, policymakers, and the public about the instabilities inherent to a fractional-reserve system. 

Walter Block

he author provides a commentary. Despite Hoppe’s more elegant way of describing choice, it still remains a logical contradiction to oppose indifference and embrace  interchangeable commodity units.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The Great Transformation is a Human Action-sized treatise about how the Fed over the past several decades has generated economic instability in far more ways than even the Austrian business cycle 

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Garrison has a vivid sense for the necessity of adequate pedagogy to communicate Austrian ideas about the working of the economy, and he is very conscious of the power of symbols. 

Nicolai J. Foss Lasse B. Lien

Changes in ownership titles are essential to understanding competitive dynamics and, more broadly, the market process. There is ample evidence that a crucial source of productivity growth,

Philipp Bagus

Much has been written about the quantity of money and its effects on money’s purchasing power. However, changes in the quality of money have been widely neglected. 

Dan Mahoney

Governments always attempt to exploit a crisis, and disasters provide a natural (no pun intended) excuse for them to do so. Their proffered “solutions” to problems(which they often create) invariably worsen those problems.

Clifford F. Thies

During the late nineteenth century, when silver agitation threatened the gold standard in the United States, gold bonds offered investors some protection from the uncertainties concerning the monetary standard in the United States.

Mihai Vladimir Topan

In his Man, Economy, and State, Murray Rothbard introduces the catallactic function of decision-making owner, and the  correspondent income of decision-making ability rent. 

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

In this new offering, Rojas tends to downplay the existence of any net capital movements and to argue that, if such net capital movements existed at all, they operate only in favor of the capitalist West.