Roger Garrison and the Sustainable Growth of the Austrian School
Generations of scholars come and go; a few, including Roger Garrison, make their mark on the field and inspire future generations to do the same.
Generations of scholars come and go; a few, including Roger Garrison, make their mark on the field and inspire future generations to do the same.
Class conflict, as Marxists preach it, must be taught. Workers do not spontaneously see themselves as historical agents of class war.
“Ask yourself whether you are willing to kill in an unjust war, whether decrees from the US government can provide sufficient moral jus
“Humanitarian intervention” sells itself as a moral shortcut: bypass the messy politics, send in the troops, stop the monster.
Although most economists tend to overemphasize the desirability of particular ways of collecting tax revenue as opposed to others, a tax on profits is perhaps one of the most evil and disastrous forms of taxation conceived.
All Austrian economists in my and subsequent generations owe Roger a debt of gratitude.
In a genuinely liberal framework, limited government, fiscal restraint, and legal clarity are not episodic accomplishments. They are the enduring foundations of a social order.
John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory was the “Bible” of economics and Roger was the devil’s advocate.
President Trump’s unconstitutional and unjust war against Iran is setting back his “affordability” agenda.
Forcing AI companies to provide their own power doesn’t get at the root of the issue, which is that the resources we use to generate electricity are scarce.