This month in The Free Market, Ron Paul discusses his new book on education with the Mises Institute:

Why write an article on a subject you know nothing about? This is a question that Amia Srinivasan might usefully have asked herself. She is a Prize Fellow in philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford, one of the most prestigious academic positions in the academic world; and her webpage at Oxford includes several papers of outstanding merit.

LewRockwell.com today posted the transcript for Joseph Salerno’s podcast with Lew Rockwell about war and the state:

Mises Institute Associated Scholar Thorsten Polleit is interviewed on gold and central banking in the Swiss publication Finews.ch.

Central to the “Austrian” understanding of business cycles is the idea that monetary expansion — in Wicksellian terms, money printing that pushes interest rates below their “natural” levels — leads to overinvestment in long-term, capital-intensive projects and long-lived, durable assets (and underinvestment in other types of projects, hence the more general term “malinvestment”).

This New York Times article argues the the fear of deflation (i.e. apoplithorismosphia) is everywhere from major retail companies to the leaders of the Federal Reserve. Economist Kenneth Rogoff calls for a 400+% increase in CPI inflation for several years to come!

The theme of academic anti-Semitism has been much discussed recently in histories of the interwar period of the University of Vienna, in particular its Faculty of Law and Policy Sciences.

Ron Paul discusses the popular rejection of war and a renewed momentum toward world peace.

The story contains some errors of fact about Austrian Economics, but Walter Block is featured on NBC affiliate 33News in Louisiana. Click to watch the video. According to 33News: