On the Shoulders of Shrinking Giants

03/23/2026 Lucas M. Engelhardt

Professor Lucas Engelhardt examines how mainstream economics has deliberately abandoned the history of economic thought, and why Austrian economists must keep teaching and re-teaching the great debates of the past.

The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Don Printz.

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