Murray Rothbard in The New Yorker
Kelefa Sanneh, a music critic and journalist who writes for The New Yorker, has a brief discussion of Murray Rothbard in his article “Paint Bombs“
Sweden’s War on Cash: News from the Frontlines
Three of the four largest banks in Sweden continue to phase out the manual handling of cash at their branch offices at a rapid pace, according to recent data reported today in Naringsliv, a leading Swedish Money and Finance newspaper insert.
Available: QJAE vol. 16, no. 1 (Armentano, McSherry and Wilson, Carden, Fisher, Méra, Thornton, Bagus)
Volume 16, no. 1 of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is now available online. Articles are:
Dominick Armentano, 2013 AERC Ludwig von Mises Lecture, “Antitrust Myths: Speak Truth to Power,”
Bernard McSherry and Berry K. Wilson, “Overcertification and the NYCHA’s Clamor for a NYSE Clearinghouse,”
Stable Prices, Unstable Markets
Fed policy makers are telling us that they have to stabilize the price level in order to allow the efficient functioning of the market: a contradiction in terms.
Everything You Were Never Taught About “The Great Emancipator”
Did Lincoln lead America through its greatest crises – or cause them?
“Real” Reinforcement for Austrian Arguments
In a recent article, “The Hoover-Roosevelt Depression Revisited,” work by Cole and Ohanian was highlighted because it comes to conclusions similar to, and thus reinforces historical work previously done by Austrians or fellow travelers (especially Murray Rothbard, Robert Higgs, and Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway), which explained the length of the Hoover-Roosevelt Depression.
Lucy is Right: Insurance Should Be a Nickel
Lucy’s proposition that, “insurance should be a nickel,” makes perfect sense.
The Hoover-Roosevelt Depression Revisited
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Murray Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression. In that work, Rothbard masterfully achieves three objectives.
1. He provides a restatement and extension of the Austrian theory of the business cycle (ABCT) while expertly defending the theory against critics;
2. He applies the theory to the inflationary boom of the 1920s and subsequent bust of 1929-30; and
Vulnerable Before the Jealous State
The real conflict in modern political history has not been, as is so often stated, between State and individual, but between State and social group. What Maitland once called the “pulverizing... tendency of modern history” has been one of the most vivid aspects of the social history of the modern West, and it has been inseparable from the momentous conflicts of jurisdiction between the political State and the social associations intermediate to it and the individual.
Interview with Thorsten Polleit
It Isn’t Capitalism That Has Caused the Crisis!
Interview with Thorsten Polleit by Lars Schall
