Eamonn F. Butler

Articles

02/08/2012 Mises Daily Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler

Rent-control laws cause housing shortages.

10/03/2019 Mises Daily Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler

[This article is excerpted from the book Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation, chapter 2: “The Roman Republic and Empire.”] As might be expected, the Roman Republic...

Wage and Price Controls in the Ancient World

02/27/2009 Mises Daily Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler

For the past forty-six centuries (at least) governments all over the world have tried to fix wages and prices from time to time. When their efforts failed, as they usually did, governments then put the blame on the wickedness and dishonesty of their subjects, rather than upon the ineffectiveness of the official policy. The same tendencies remain today.

Publications

Austrian Economics: A Primer

08/19/2010 Eamonn F. Butler

Here, Butler has written a very competent overview of Mises’s works and thoughts, with a focus on his understanding of the workings of markets (so, for example, there is less focus on theory than we find in The Essential von Mises). Economists shape

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

02/14/1978 Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler

By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting the

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