Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

Beyond being incompatible with natural rights and detrimental to the dissemination of innovations, the concept of intellectual property is a praxeological impossibility. 

Economists have tried to explain business cycles as well as fluctuations in the economy, but over the past two centuries, the explanations have fallen into two areas. 

Does the emergence of bitcoin invalidate the regression theorem? William Luther argues that it does, but Pickering here contends that Luther's view misinterprets the regression theorem.

Quinn’s American Bonds shows that the federal government’s credit policies were important factors behind the particular evolution of securitization and credit markets in the United States.

This book is a rarity: a reasonable treatment of bitcoin from the point of view of Austrian economics.

Brendan Brown reviews "Narrative Economics," which argues that "economic fluctuations are substantially driven by contagion of oversimplified and easily transmitted variants of economic narratives."

David Gordon reviews Prosperity and Liberty, a compilation of essays on Venezuela's wrecked economy and plans for reconstruction, edited by Rafael Acevedo.

George Pickering reviews the Policy Reform Group's Beyond Brexit: A Programme for UK Reform, a series of essays on the Great Recession and Britain's retreat from the global economy's forefront.

Unprofitable Schooling is the go-to book for anyone who wants to understand, in depth, the debates raging about why, and even whether, the academy is in such a sorry state.

Jeffrey Degner reviews Caitlin Zaloom's Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost and finds that while the anthropological approach led to interesting anecdotes, Zaloom's economics fall short.