Georg Grassmueck

Georg Grassmueck is an Associate Professor of Business at Lycoming College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. He received his BS in International Business and his MBA with a concentration in Finance from Sacred Heart University and his PhD in Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics from Pennsylvania State University. At Lycoming College, he teaches a variety of finance classes ranging from Fundamentals of Financial Management to Investment Theory and Corporate Finance. He also teaches a class on Business and Society and Reading in Entrepreneurship, focusing on an Austrian approach to the subject. He is actively involved in the First Year Seminar series exploring with students an Austrian inspired laissez-faire approach to everyday problems. His current research focuses on how the concept of the entrepreneur can be applied to financial markets. He took his first Austrian Economics class, business cycle theory, while studying economics and business in his country of birth, Austria.

Articles

Public Transit Projects Are the Perfect Recipe for Financial Disaster

03/03/2023 Mises Wire Georg Grassmueck

The largest urban mass-transit systems across the US are entering an all too familiar point in their long history: another looming financial disaster caused by financial mismanagement and the...

Hazlitt’s Lesson Restated: New Jersey’s Disastrous Ban on Single-Use Plastic

10/05/2022 Mises Wire Georg Grassmueck

New Jersey became one of the latest states in 2022 to ban single-use bags. In 2014, California became the first state to ban of use plastic bags. Since then, several states have followed including New...

Austria Doubles Down on Forced Vaccinations

02/07/2022 Mises Wire Georg Grassmueck

On November 15, 2021, the Austrian government ordered a lockdown for the unvaccinated. This drastic step occurred after citing low vaccination rates and the goal to decrease the risk of transmission...

Media

Hazlitt’s Lesson Restated: New Jersey’s Disastrous Ban on Single-Use Plastic

10/11/2022 Georg Grassmueck

Virtue-signaling politicians in New Jersey have banned single-use plastic bags, claiming to "help the environment." They need to read Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson instead.

Austria Doubles Down on Forced Vaccinations

03/05/2022 Georg Grassmueck

Although covid cases in Austria—and most other countries—are rapidly falling, Austria has doubled down on punishing the unvaccinated and become the first country to mandate vaccination for all adults.

The Madness of Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains

11/12/2021 Georg Grassmueck

The new proposal is framed as a tax on the ultrarich. The same was true of the new income tax in 1913. If given the power to tax unrealized gains, expect the feds to expand the tax to ordinary people.