Slavery Was Not the Difference: How Legal Innovations Made America a Superpower While Brazil Stagnated
On the Shoulders of Shrinking Giants
A proper understanding of an intellectual structure of production will allow us to understand the connection—or lack of connection—between expertise and public opinion.
From Vienna to Madrid: A Libertarian Vision of Scientific and Moral Truth
Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto’s Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture given at the Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute in March 2026.
Sterile Money, Fiat Sex: The End of Growth, in One Lesson
Catherine Pakaluk’s Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture at the 2026 Austrian Economics Research Conference analogizes fiat money and “fiat sex”—the technological severance of sexual exchange from its natural productive end.
Rothbard on Interventionism: Writing the Last Chapters of Economic Theory
In this Murray Rothbard Memorial Lecture, Joseph Salerno discusses some important but neglected aspects and implications of Rothbard’s theory of interventionism.
The Falsity of Positive Technology Shocks
Paul Cwik argues that there can be no such thing as a positive technological shock, because research and development requires savings, entrepreneurial insight, and risk-taking.
The Misesian Essentialist and the Hayekian Antiessentialist: A New Dimension in the Dehomogenization
Mises held that essences reside in the logical structure of rational choice itself. Hayek, in contrast, rejected the idea that economic phenomena possess fixed essences accessible by logical derivation.
Momentary Monetary Equilibrium: Refining Rothbard
Does monetary equilibrium in the market-clearing sense always hold? The authors contend that Rothbard committed the errors he sought to correct in his explanation of the money relation.
How Say and Jefferson Transformed American Political Economy
Who laid the intellectual foundations of American political economy in the early Republic—the Jeffersonians or the Hamiltonians? Brae Sadler argues that American economic thought developed primarily along Jeffersonian lines.
