4. The Late Spanish Scholastics
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 99-116 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 99-116 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 67-81 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 150-164 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 31-47 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 117-133 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 3-10 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 81-95 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 164-175 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Carl Menger, from his classic treatise, on the origins of the means of payment.
This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy Lilley.
To the individualist Lao Tzu, government, with its “laws and regulations more numerous than the hairs of an ox,” was a vicious oppresso
I think of Ayn’s happiness and expectation, I think of the pain and bitter disillusion that scarred the rest of her life — and something insi
A money-substitute can be embodied either in a banknote or in a demand deposit with a bank subject to check (”checkbook money” or depos
When we disapprove of government support, we are supposed to disapprove of the thing itself whose support is discussed.
Although Aristotle, in the Greek tradition, scorned moneymaking and was scarcely a partisan of laissez-faire, he set forth a trenchant argument in
Being ill is not a phenomenon independent of conscious will and of psychic forces working in the subconscious.
The task of the theory of money consists merely in dealing with that component in the valuation of money which is conditioned by its function as a
Money originates by free markets via barter and gold and silver, not by governments via fiat. A story of Halloween candy demonstrates this. The double coincidence of wants is solved by money. Money that will last will be six things: generally marketable, divisible, high value per unit weight (portable), durable, recognizable, and homogeneous.