A Deficient Understanding
Author Alan Uke identifies an unhampered market as the source of America’s economic ills and proposes more big government as the solution.
Gitta Serény (1921-2012)
Schulak and Unterköfler Reviewed in JHET
Good news! The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions by Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler has been reviewed for Cambridge’s Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
The Devilish Principles of Hillarycare
The details of the Clintonian plan, however diabolic, are merely petty demons compared to the general principles, where Lucifer really lurks.
Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics
This article is chapter 4 from Economic Controversies (2011).
It originally appeared in The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics (1976).
The Watermelon Summit
Watermelon: “green” on the outside, red on the inside. Rio Earth Summit: “Watermelons of the World Unite!”
Why Classical Liberalism Rejects War
“The liberal critique of the argument in favor of war is fundamentally different from that of the humanitarians. It starts from the premise that not war, but peace, is the father of all things. What alone enables mankind to advance and distinguishes man from the animals is social cooperation. It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. War only destroys; it cannot create. War, carnage, destruction, and devastation we have in common with the predatory beasts of th
Jerry Davis R.I.P.
Sadly, one of the most enthusiastic and generous supporters to the Mises Institute, Jerry Davis, has passed away. Before health issues slowed him, Jerry was a frequent caller to the Institute, providing inspiration, to talk about Austrian economics and liberty, or to order books to be sent to friends or just people he came in contact with. Jerry purchased thousands of books to spread the word of liberty.
Why Gold?
Austrians wish to extend their laissez-faire views to the creation and sale of a specific commodity: money.
