A recent surge of politically-motivated violence, dramatically underscored by the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, has left many Americans wondering just how we got to a point where political activists are increasingly attempting to settle their disagreements, not by offering rational arguments, engaging in civil debates, casting ballots, or enforcing a rule of law; but instead by dishing out insults, canceling opposing speakers, firing bullets, and imposing executive authority in defiance of law. What has gone wrong?

The Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise announces a new workshop for PhD students and early-career faculty. From the workshop announcement:

We are once again hosting a Theory Development Workshop (TDW) here in Stillwater, OK. This year’s workshop will take place on Wednesday, November 12, and will, again, be specifically oriented toward free markets and market processes. And, once again, we wholeheartedly welcome submissions from an Austrian perspective.

According to the leader of the monetarist school, Milton Friedman, the key cause of business cycles are fluctuations in the growth rate of the money supply. Friedman held that in order to eliminate these cycles central bank policymakers should aim at a fixed growth rate of money supply. According to Friedman,