Austrian Student Scholars Conference 2017
Grove City College will host the thirteenth annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference, February 24-25, 2017.
Austrian Economics
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1916 and the Health of the State
A century of altering the social and economic life in the West: World War I.
The Swiss Consider a National Referendum on Fractional Reserve Banking
You may have heard about the Swiss referendum to end fractional reserve lending by Swiss commercial banks. It's a fascinating development, and another example of how average Swiss people can use the federal referendum process to force both the central legislature and the 26 cantons to consider citizen proposals—merely by gathering 100,000 signatures within 18 months.
Hunger and War in WWI Germany: Remembering the Slaughter of Pigs
Strange centennial somehow makes sense in the world of Leviathan.
Praxeology of Coercion: Catallactics vs. Cratics
In this paper, a “praxeology of coercion,” or, more precisely, an analysis of interpersonal actions involving threats, is developed. This is an attempt to further the analysis of human action as defined by Mises.
Daniel Hausman on Economic Theory
Daniel Hausman, an influential philosopher of economics, in a recent interview has much to say of interest to Austrians.
Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2016
The Rothbard Graduate Seminar provides an intense study of Misesian and Rothbardian economic analysis, along with the substantive conclusions of that research in related fields.
Why the Austrian Understanding of Money and Banks Is So Important
Austrians today are nearly alone in asserting what the classical economists all knew. You cannot create prosperity by creating more money, but only through increases in technological progress, frugality, trade, and a division of labor.
