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Richard Vedder

Richard K. Vedder is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Economics at Ohio University; and he is the Founding Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington, D.C. He is author of numerous books, including Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education (2025), and Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America (2019), both published by the Independent Institute.

Articles

Wages, Prices, and Employment: Von Mises and the Progressives

07/20/2005 Review of Austrian Economics Lowell E. Gallaway Richard Vedder

Statistical Malfeasance and Interpreting Economic Phenomena

07/20/2005 Review of Austrian Economics Richard Vedder

It took seven decades, but most people now accept what Ludwig von Mises explained three quarters of a century ago, namely, that centrally directed socialistic economies cannot succeed in coordinating vast numbers of interrelated decisions, in large part because of the information problem arising from non-market forms of resource allocation (Mises 1920). No amount of input-out- put models generated on vast computers can overcome the problems of directing resources under changing conditions of wants and scar-city.

The Great Depression of 1946

07/20/2005 Review of Austrian Economics Richard Vedder Lowell E. Gallaway

G.R. Steele Hayek’s Money Economy: The Dynamics of Competitive Equilibrium and Socio-Economic Order Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in

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Publications

Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

07/01/1997 Lowell E. Gallaway Richard Vedder

Professors Vedder and Gallaway provide a comprehensive examination of unemployment in the last century of American economic history, using a persuasive mix of Austrian theory (on money and business cycle), empirical methods, and narrative history

Media

Richard Vedder on Restoring the Promise of Higher Education in America

10/22/2019 Robert P. Murphy Richard Vedder

Bob Murphy and Richard Vedder discusses Vedder's new book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America.

Wages and Labor

03/01/2004 Richard Vedder

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

From Bad to Worse: Interventionist Bias in Conventional Presidential Rankings

03/01/2004 Richard Vedder

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.

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