True by Definition

07/17/2003 Mises Wire Samuel Bostaph

Don’t you just love the statement: “unemployment has risen because of falling employment...” The NBER staff has been brushing up on their Herbert Hooverisms.

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From Menger to Mises

03/26/2021 Samuel Bostaph

In this plenary address from the 2021 Austrian Economic Research Conference, Samuel Bostaph, an economist and historian of economic thought, discusses how Ludwig von Mises preserved and developed the work of Carl Menger.

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas

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