Symposium Introduction

Volume 13, Number 3 (Fall 2010)

 

A symposium was held in San Antonio, Texas at the Southern Economic Association convention in November of 2009. This issue consists largely of papers based on the lectures given at the symposium. During the symposium, the subject was the current economic crisis.

Why Your Grandfather’s Economics Was Better than Yours: On the Catastrophic Disappearance of Say’s Law

I would like to thank Joe Salerno for his kind invitation to present the Ludwig von Mises lecture for 2010, in this way giving me the opportunity to present these views on the classical theory of the cycle and Say’s Law to a wider audience. I would also like to thank my good friend, Peter Smith, who provided excellent and sympathetic advice on an earlier draft of this paper.

Ludwig von Mises Lecture
Austrian Scholars Conference
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Auburn, Alabama
March 13, 2010