This weekend, over 130 scholars from over 10 countries and 58 colleges and universities gathered in Auburn for the 2016 Austrian Economics Research Conference . The continual growth of AERC is a testament to the growing strength of the Austrian school, both in America and abroad . As Lew Rockwell wrote this week: Austrian economics is
Money was in the news this week as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew sided with Ben Bernanke , announcing that the father of crony capitalism gets to stay on the ten dollar bill while Andrew Jackson makes way for Harriett Tubman. But why stop at Jackson? As Ryan McMaken argues , the country would be better off eliminating all politicians from our
Friday was tax day, which — for the non-Keynesians among us — often serves as a useful reminder of the burden imposed on us by the state. Of course, as Ryan McMaken reminds us , income taxes are only one piece of the puzzle — with every cent government spends representing cost taxpayers in one form or another. As Ludwig von Mises wrote in Human
The 2015 Houston Mises Circle, “Breaking Away: The Case for Secession” begins this Saturday morning. Watch all the lectures online , live from Houston, on Saturday, January 24. Here’s the schedule for both in-person attendees and online viewers. The online events will begin with Jeff Deists talk at 10:00 AM (all times are Central): 8:30 a.m.
Allan Stevo writes: President Obama’s acolytes have begun circulating the term “middle-class economics” through the Sunday morning news programs and throughout the media. That exact phrase “middle class economics” I’ve heard repeated 15-20 times in the media these last two days by the President’s supporters in preparation for tonight’s State of
The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian school, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual tradition. The conference is hosted by the Mises Institute at its campus in Auburn, Alabama and directed by Joseph Salerno, professor of
Recorded at “Breaking Away: The Case for Secession”—the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on 24 January 2015. “And yet what is secession? When we talk about secession, we are saying that this political line should be drawn here instead of here. Wow. What a terrifying proposition that we might want to propose such a thing as
From Chapter 24 of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises: Popular opinion sees the source of the conflicts which bring about the civil wars and international wars of our age in the collision of “economic” interests inherent in the market economy. Civil war is the rebellion of the “exploited” masses against the “exploiting” classes. Foreign war is the
The Mises Institute is pleased to welcome John Papola to the Austrian Scholars Conference , March 11-13, 2010, Auburn, Alabama. John is the co-producer along with Russell Roberts of “Fear the Boom and Bust,” the youtube smash hit that pits Hayek against Keynes in a rap song about the business cycle. The video (now with 785,000 views) has brought
This week has been marked by devastating illustrations of why so much of the public distrusts the institutions of the state. On Tuesday , the FBI announced that, in spite of numerous legal precedents otherwise , Hillary Clinton would not be indicted for her mishandling of classified material. The incident was simply the latest example of how the
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