Mainstream Economists Prove Krugman Wrong About Hayek and Mises
Once credit over-expansion hits, rolling back credit won’t be able to put Humpty-Dumpty together again.
The First Step to a Free Detroit: Let Them Work
What might the people of Detroit achieve if regulatory barriers to productive work were eliminated?
Thomas Woods on Nullification: September 21
Senior Fellow Thomas Woods will speak on nullification in Wisconsin on September 21. Dr. Woods is notable for his book Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, and for his Mises Academy course on the topic. Here is Woods providing an in-depth interview on nullification:
Foss and Klein on Entrepreneurship and the Firm
Readers interested in the economics literature on management, the firm, and entrepreneurship, will likely be interested in Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment by Nicolai J. Foss and Peter Klein.
The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal has recently posted a scholarly review of the book.
Tribute to Bob Higgs
David Theroux has penned a lovely tribute to Bob Higgs, who recently stepped down as founding editor of the very fine Independent Review. Aside from being a great scholar, writer, and speaker, Bob is a terrific editor -- academics are not known for their sparking prose, and Bob has a knack for molding even the most pedantic, turgid paragraphs into a readable, engaging story.
Mendenhall reviews Paul Cantor’s Pop Culture Tome
Mises Scholar Paul Cantor’s The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture is reviewed in The Independent Review:
Against the cultural elite and their promotion of patrician—and mostly European—standards for the arts, Cantor maintains that the marketplace enables creative and experimental forms of expression that aren’t so different from earlier aesthetic media such as the serialized novel or popular plays.
The Mises University 2013 Photo Album
Mises University, which accepts only one in three applicants, welcomed an extremely talented group of 150 graduate and undergraduate students this year who had the opportunity to learn from some of the finest scholars of the Austrian school in the world, including more than one best-selling author. (Thanks to our donors, there is no charge for students to attend.) Why should you sponsor a student at Mises U?
Syria and “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace”
Mises Institute Associated Scholar Paul Gottfried writes today in The American Conservative:
The Virus of Imperialism (Part II)
The American government is currently hell bent on yet another military adventure that has nothing to do with defending American freedom — or anyone else’s.
Excerpt from Spitznagel’s Dao of Capital
Institutional Investor is running an excerpt from Mark Spitznagel’s excellent book The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World (Wiley, 2013).
