What “Capitalism” Really Means
Big business, the target of the most fanatic attacks by the so-called leftists, produces almost exclusively to satisfy the wants of the masses. In fact, serving the masses is the main occupation of the “capitalist.”
The First 30 Years of the Mises Institute
We’ve made available to the world, free of charge, an enormous library of the most important works ever written on Austrian economics and libertarian theory.
Encounter Magazine Online
Weakness in Recent GDP Numbers
On target commentary on recent GDP numbers by Shawn Ritenour. As long as investment stays weak, job growth will be weak. 
Foundations of Economics: U.S. Economy Grows at 2%?.
More detailed discussion is here.
For data on the relationship between real gross private domestic private investment and employment see below
(HT to Danny Sanchez).
The Greatest Thinker You Have Read but Those Who Most Need to Haven’t
In case you missed it (I did the first time around so a HT Pete Boettke and Jeff Tucker): Art Carden at Forbes on “The Greatest Thinker You’ve Never Read: Ludwig von Mises.”
Highlights:
The Road to World War II
The Marxian Strategy
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 12 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995). An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]
Dearness vs. Cheapness
[The Bastiat Collection (2011); originally from the second series of Economic Sophisms (1848)]
The Two Hatchets
Between you and a Belgian, therefore, there is exactly the same difference as in my trade there would be between a blunt and a sharp axe.
Congratulations to Patrick Newman
This young Austrian is having quite a year. In July he won LvMI’s 2012 Douglas E. French Prize, “for the student who emerges from the Mises University oral examinations with the best record, as chosen by the examining committee.” And just last week, he won the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics’ 2012 Carl Menger Essay Contest for his “The Long Depression of 1873-1879: An Austrian Examination”. Fantastic work, Patch!
