It’s Not Consumption that Drives the Economy

Good news from Mark Skousen:
Important Announcement and some good news: It looks like government may be starting to adopt my new macro model, based on my concept of Gross Domestic Expenditures (GDE), rather than the old GDP, which is what gives the false impression that consumption, rather than production and investing, is what makes the difference in the economy.
Skousen has long argued that standard measures in the income and product accounst provide a very misleading picture of

New Paper on Austrian Capital Theory

In my Hayek Lecture at last year’s Austrian Economics Scholars Conference I argued that Austrian capital theory is deserving of a comeback as an absolute integral part of Austrian economics. I argued that ACT directs attention to the essential importance of heterogeneity and I argued that notions of capital heterogeneity serves to bring the entrepreneur, transaction costs and institutions directly into our understanding of the growth process.

Mises’s Legacy 40 Years Later: How His Work Influenced Me

Thursday is the 40th Anniversary of the death of Ludwig von Mises.

First, let me start out with a bit of braggadocio. I must be one of the few people, still living, who has actually shaken hands with Ludwig von Mises (and never washed his hand afterward; so, if you shake hands with me, you come off a bit smelly, but you can directly channel Mises himself through my intermediation).

On The 100th Anniversary of the Income Tax

Woodrow Wilson signed the Income Tax into law one hundred years ago today. As direct taxation of Americans was prohibited by the Constitution, a constitutional amendment was necessary before what would become the Revenue Act of 1913 could be legally imposed. The income tax, and the enabling amendment, were sold to the voters as necessary for a tax on rich people that would mean lower taxes and cheaper goods (due to lowered tariffs) for everyone else.

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