Over at EconLog Alberto Mingardi has an excellent post on “ Ebeling on Mises, the Applied Economist . ” Ebeling is one of the top Mises scholars. Mingardi’s introduction : The Liberty Fund has recently made available on line the introductions, written by Richard Ebeling, to the three volumes of “Selected Essays” by Ludwig von Mises that he edited
In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal economist Douglas Coate suggests a need for “ Improving the GOP’s Free-Market Pitch .” He correctly points out, “Capitalism’s virtues don’t easily reduce to sound bites, but that isn’t a reason to give up.” Then he provides a reasonable summary of the benefits of free markets or capitalism including an
I just received my first copy of The Austrian , which replaces The Free Market as the flagship publication for Mises Institute members. If the first issue is any indication they will live up to their promise of a “bolder and more robust version of what you have known for decades.” I especially look forward to again seeing regular book reviews from
More evidence the future of Austrian economics is in good hands is Patrick Newman’s (a PhD student at George Mason University and a participant in the 2012 Mises Institute Summer Fellowship program) excellent piece of scholarship recently published in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics as “ The Depression of 1873: An Austrian Perspective
Independent Institute links to Burton A. Abrams’s ( Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware) sound criticism of Fed policy at Investors.com powered by Investor’s Business Daily . Abrams provides some of the best commentary I have seen on the Fed’s nonsensical commitment to 2% inflation
David Henderson has an important post, “ The Wonder of Economic Freedom ”. I truly appreciate his emphasis not just on markets, but on economic freedom; what I called elsewhere a free economy – which is much broader than just what is normally viewed as ‘market activity’. Henderson highlights “ Jeffrey Tucker’s writings on the “marvels of a free
In a Wall Street Journal article “ GOP Targets Medicaid, Food Stamps ” Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), top member of the Democratic caucus on the Senate Budget Committee, is quoted as saying, “I will do everything in my power to make sure we pass a budget that does not harm the most vulnerable Americans”. It would be nice if this concern for the
The Fed is seemingly slightly out of step with other central bankers as it recently hinted at possible future rate hikes in the official announcement following its March 20, 2015 meeting. But as many commentators have recognized, Janet Yellen , a strong proponent of Keynesian more-inflation-as-cure-for-unemployment policy, later downplayed the
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