Clifford F. Thies

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07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Clifford F. Thies

During the late nineteenth century, when silver agitation threatened the gold standard in the United States, gold bonds offered investors some protection from the uncertainties concerning the monetary standard in the United States.

Murder and Inflation in Kentucky

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Clifford F. Thies

This paper tracks the economic and political developments in the state of Kentucky that led up to the murder, trial, and execution constituting “The Kentucky Tragedy,”

The Human Impact of Factor Mobility

05/01/2004 Free Market Clifford F. Thies

That some factors of production are mobile, says the new protectionist, "proves" that free trade is not as attractive as (supposedly) David Ricardo argued. But factor mobility is not new. It has long been accepted by economists that either goods or people (and other factors of production) move.

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Mises and Climate Change

03/26/2008 Clifford F. Thies

It is one thing to be concerned about the possible impact of the sum of many tiny human actions on the climate of the planet on which we find ourselves, for this is entirely consistent with choosing life. It is quite another thing to presume that we

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