Higgs: Looking Beyond the Unemployment Numbers
Robert Higgs, in spite of his reservations about writing op-eds, has written a great one for the
Where Is The Inflation Today?
People often ask today: if the Fed has created so much new money, why hasn’t it produced more inflation?
When the Fed creates masses of new money, it initially flows to Wall Street, which profits from it in a variety of imaginative ways, but from there its path is unpredictable.
The Fed inserted into the TARP bill in 2008 the authority to pay interest on bank reserves. Of course this interest is paid by creating even more new money, but it provides an incentive for banks to leave reserves idle.
Audio: Robert Murphy Explains Obamacare
In case you missed it, here is Bob Murphy explaining Obamacare on the Tom Woods show.
The Political Nature of Paper Monies
[From the Summer 2013 issue of The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics]
By Nicolay Gertchev
Interested in Managerial Econ? You Will Not Get This Kind of Education Anywhere Else
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The syllabus to Peter Klein’s upcoming online course Austrian Economics for Managers:
Lecture 1: Introduction
Part 1: Review of Austrian microeconomics, introduction of key concepts
- Thomas C. Taylor, An Introduction to Austrian Economics (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1980), pp. 7-51.
- Ludwig von Mises, “Profit Management,” in Mises, Bureaucracy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944), chapter 3.
- H.
How Housing Regulations Ruin Tenant-Landlord Relations
The current tenancy laws do not promote conflict resolution and peaceful cooperation, as laws are intended to do. Under the current regulatory system, a landlord has minimal to no benefits from providing high quality service, quite the opposite of what good laws are supposed to do.
How the Years Between the World Wars Created the Modern World
The 20 years known as the interwar years is a pivotal period both for good and ill. For anyone that revers liberty, the interwar period is absolutely crucial for understanding and interpreting today’s geopolitical circumstances. The period certainly produced a design for the world to come.
Wall Street Cheerleader Bummed by Austrian Lack of Enthusiasm
Today at The Street, Dana Blankenhorn writes that you shouldn’t let the Austrians at the Mises Institute harsh your buzz. Blankenhorn implores his readers to “Ignore The Doomsday Chorus” and observes:
Today at The Street, Dana Blankenhorn writes that you shouldn’t let the Austrians at the Mises Institute harsh your buzz.
Blankenhorn implores his readers to “Ignore The Doomsday Chorus” and observes:
What most of today’s Doomsday Chorus has in common is a devotion to libertarianism and to Austrian Economics, which holds that there are absolute rules about economic behavior that can be deduced logically, and that government is powerless against these rules. Rob
The Mises Institute and the Future of Higher Education
The demand for online educational programs illustrates how useful they are in the marketplace, and the Mises Institute is already part of this new world of higher education. We seek to become the private online university of the future for Austrian economics, libertarianism, and related areas.
