Volume 1, No. 3 (Fall 1998) The Review of Austrian Economics (RAE) recently published a review of my book Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics that, while praising my book to some extent, seriously misrepresents or altogether ignores major portions of it.[1] Since a full analysis of the review would require twice as much space as the review
Volume 3, No. 3 (Fall 2000) The essential reason that a 100-percent-reserve gold standard should be the ultimate goal of monetary reform is that is would secure the economic system against the evils both of inflation and of deflation-depression. In addition, it would be consistent with the fundamental moral-political principle of the absence
Volume 5, No. 2 (Summer 2002) A rational response to the possibility of large-scale environmental change is to establish the economic freedom of individuals to deal with it , if and when it comes. Capitalism and the free market are the essential means of doing this, not paralyzing government controls and “environmentalism.” Both in the
Volume 5, No. 3 (Fall 2002) Böhm-Bawerk is the most important Austrian economist after Ludwig von Mises . The author says this on the basis of the fact that his writings provide by far the best and most comprehensive development of the law of diminishing marginal utility and its application to price theory that is to be found anywhere. And
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.