Sunday Night at 8PM EST: Mises University Begins Online
Join us online this week for Mises University, our annual high-intensity seminar for college and university students worldwide. Students are arriving in Auburn today from 92 colleges, 24 countries, and 30 states for a full week of seminars, discussions, and lectures with the best scholars working in Austrian economics today.
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Mises Weekends: The ECB Has Failed
In this week’s Mises Weekends, Jeff Deist and Karl-Friedrich Israel discuss the current situation in Greece from Karl’s perspective as a German. Old hostilities between the north and south in Europe are being inflamed, which calls into question the entire purpose of the Eurozone.
The Freeman 1982
The complete archive for The Freeman 32, no1. 1–12 (1982), published by the Foundation for Economic Education.
Karl-Friedrich Israel: The ECB Has Failed
The Fed’s Confusion Over the “Natural Rate” of Unemployment and Inflation
In May, the US unemployment rate stood at 5.5 percent against the rate of 5.3 percent for the “natural unemployment,” also known as the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU).
The Intellectual Intolerance Behind “Check Your Privilege”
A decade ago, no one had ever been told to “check your privilege.” Now it commands an appreciable “market share” in academia and social justice rhetoric. But it does so despite sharply opposed interpretations of its meaning. In fact, its expanded footprint is partly because of its ambiguity.
It Could Be an Invitation to Debate
In a sense, “check your privilege” largely amounts to “check your premises” behind your views, and many are willing to recognize that such a reminder can be useful in advancing conversations about social issues.
First View of Chinese Translation of Bagus’s “In Defense of Deflation”
Writes Xiong Yue:
So the Chinese translation of In Defense of Deflation by Prof. Philipp Bagus translated by Dr. Yang Nong and me is finished. The editor promised me it would be published in August. We still have some arguments on the name of this book, because normally we don’t use “In Defense of” something in Chinese as a title.
Bloomberg: Germany, Not Greece, Should Exit the Euro
Bloomberg catches up with Mises.org and Patrick Barron. Ashoka Mody writes today that the real solution to Europe’s ills is to have Germany leave the EU, possibly to form a separate economic bloc in the north. Moreover, the dispution, according to Mody, woudl be relatively minor:
