Greg Kaza

Articles

Book Review: The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976

08/26/2025 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Greg Kaza

Greg Kaza reviews Brian Domitrovic's The Emergence of Arthur Laffer. Alienated from academia during the stagflation era, Laffer was able to reach policymakers by presenting his ideas in a simple way, such as with his famous napkin Laffer curve.

Book Review: 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

08/26/2025 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Greg Kaza

Greg Kaza reviews Ben Bernanke's 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19. The book is a candid yet self-justifying defense of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy that refuses to acknowledge how stimulus has driven inflation.

An Economist’s Biography of Andrew Carnegie

11/06/2017 Mises Wire Greg Kaza

Carnegie’s entrepreneurial talents in developing new markets cannot be ignored, despite his unscrupulous dealings with politicians.

Publications

Review of Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography by Samuel Bostaph

01/12/2017 Greg Kaza

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 302–306 Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) emigrated to the United States from Scotland at age 12, working entry-level jobs (bobbin boy, messenger, telegraph operator) that taught

Media

The Austrian School in ‘The American Economic Review’

03/21/2012 Greg Kaza

Session on Austrian Economics: Theory and History. Recorded March 10, 2012, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

Mises and the Struggle Against Italian Fascism in World War II

03/28/2013 Greg Kaza

From the session on “History of Economic Thought,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference. Recorded 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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