Mises and Hayek Dehomogenized

02/10/2026 Joseph T. Salerno

Today, the term “Austrian economics” is used to designate two very different paradigms.

This essay was originally published in 1993 in the Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 6, Number 2.

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