This paper was prepared for consideration for a Ludwig von Mises prize to be awarded at the Mises Institute’s 10th anniversary conference, October 9-11,1992. The paper draws from and expands upon a manuscript entitled “The Evolution of Values and Institutions in a Free Society: The Underpinnings of a Market Economy,” prepared for the International Conference on the Unity of Sciences, held in Seoul, Korea in August of 1992.

      You may have noticed that I put a question mark after the title of this paper. I must explain why.

May I start by summarizing professor Hart’s essay in a few words.1

Volume 4, No. 2 (Summer 2001)

In my critique of Austrian economics, I carved out a virtually unique position: Despite the Austrians’ professed devotion to “realism” against neoclassical pragmatism, the latter approach is in fact far more realistic than the former. Hülsmann and Block remain unconvinced. The editor’s invitation to respond provides me with an ideal opportunity not only to defend myself, but to spell out the philosophical side of my original thesis in greater depth.

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There are major and fundamental disagreements between some of the leading Austrians, and these disagreements are created by wholly different theories concerning the definition of monopoly, the origins of monopoly, and the supposed effects of monopoly on consumer sovereignty and efficient resource allocation.

Volume 3, Article 14 (2011)

Introduction

The purpose of this note is to apply an argument developed in Hülsmann (2009) to a claim used in advocacy of fractional reserve banking (FRB) under a system of free banking (that is, a system of banks lacking any formal, central control [as characterizes the state-monopolized central banking systems of the modern Western world]). Hülsmann considers the effects on the structure of production of changes in the demand for money, under two contrasting monetary systems: a commodity money system, and a fiat money system.

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From the Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1995.