About the Author

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George A. Selgin is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1986 and was lecturer in economics for a year at the University of Hong Kong. His first book, The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply Under Competitive Note Issue was published in 1988 by Rowman and Littlefield.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

Praxeology and Understanding: An Analysis of the Controversy in Austrian Economics

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