Eduard Braun

Articles

05/08/2026 Mises Wire Eduard Braun

Marxists have claimed that capital undermines human freedom. Ludwig von Mises, on the other hand, pointed out that capital developed within a free market is essential to personal liberty.

Germany Is Now Officially a Planned Economy

03/05/2026 Power & Market Eduard Braun

Germany’s “social-ecological transformation” is the political program of turning the existing social market economy into what the government calls a “social-ecological market economy.” In practice, this means a planned economy.

Economic Calculation and the Entrepreneur

10/07/2024 Mises Wire Eduard Braun Florian Follert

The concept of economic calculation is vitally important to understanding our modern economy, yet few people— and especially economists—comprehend that it even exists.

Publications

Reply to Dr. Howden on Opportunity Costs

09/09/2016 Eduard Braun

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) Howden (2016) dedicates a large part of his response to criticizing my way of dealing with and classifying the concept of opportunity costs in my book (Braun, 2014). I must start by

Media

Economic Calculation and the Entrepreneur

10/23/2024 Eduard Braun Florian Follert

The concept of economic calculation is vitally important to understanding our modern economy, yet few people— and especially economists—comprehend that it even exists.

Socialism Is Not Groupthink, but Statethink: A Brief Comment on Jordan Peterson

09/20/2022 Eduard Braun

Jordan Peterson has linked identity politics to socialism. Instead, socialism is about empowering the state.

The Subsistence Fund and ABCT

03/09/2012 Eduard Braun

Symposium on the Centennial of ‘The Theory of Money and Credit’. Recorded March 9, 2012, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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