Wladimir Kraus, a former Rowley Fellow at the Mises Institute, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Essays on Reisman’s Net Consumption Theory of Profit and Interest” yesterday at the University of Aix-Marseille in southern France. Dr Kraus probably wrote the first PhD dissertation ever on George Reisman’s important treatise Capitalism
Germany’s Wirtschaftswoche just published a major story on Mises’s life and works , stressing his contributions to business cycle theory. The “intransigent visionary” provided the theoretical framework for analysing, understanding, and correcting our present financial
In his magnificent Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School , Ralph Raico recently stressed that there never has been any such thing as “classical” liberalism. There was and is only liberalism, an intellectual movement centred around the notion that society is working by itself and does not need to be supported, or reigned in, by coercive
Belgium is not only the host country to the central planners from the European Commission in Brussels. It is also the land of great charming historical commercial towns such as Bruges, Antwerp, and Gent. If you happen to be in the area: next Tuesday yours truly shall deliver two lectures for the Flemish liberal student association in Gent. The
More monetary competition , this is the promising title of Markus Kerber’s new book, in which he makes the case for establishing currency competition to solve the current conflicts within the Eurozone. Kerber is a law professor at my alma mater and for this reason alone, of course, his book deserves attention. Moreover, he is the founder and
Ever heard of social imperialism? That’s an old name for the aggressive foreign policy of governments wishing to deflect attention from the fact that they are unable to solve domestic problems. If you just cannot quite get yourself to repair a public pension system, or a public health system, well, then you might consider invading a few foreign
[ The Ethics of Money Production (2008)] Before we deal with the impact of monopolies on the production of monetary services, let us emphasize that our argument concerns only legal monopolies. It does not concern economic monopolies — market situations in which products and services have just one provider. Such economic monopolies are fairly
[Guido Hülsmann wrote the Foreword to Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School by Ralph Raico (2012)] History looks backward into the past, but the lesson it teaches concerns things to come. It does not teach indolent quietism; it rouses man to emulate the deeds of earlier generations.” – Ludwig von Mises The present book contains a collection
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