Biographies

This issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics features the debut of a section on “Remembering,” which recognizes the life, career, and achievements of little-known or forgotten  individuals 

Bellikoth Ragunath Shenoy was an Indian economist and teacher who produced many essays on Indian economic policy. Scholars of economic thought have neglected the importance of his work. 

Larry was a committed Austrian economist and passionate defender of the liberal economic order. At the time of his passing, he was a leading advocate of free banking and critic of central banking.

As substantial as economist as Schumpeter could claim that interest is a disequilibrium phenomenon and fantasize about a long-run equilibrium where market forces have pushed the interest rate to zero. 

The 2007–2008 financial crisis, accompanying recession, and continuing slow recovery have reinvigorated crude Keynesianism as the foundation of a "somebody in charge" policy to combat recession and high unemployment.

Caldwell sets out to answer the question: what can neoclassical economists of the late twentieth/early twenty-first century, learn from Hayek's writings? His reply constitutes an intellectual tour de force of the neoclassical approach.

A symposium was held in San Antonio, Texas at the Southern Economic Association convention in November of 2009. This issue consists largely of papers based on the lectures given at the symposium. 

Though little known among the economics establishment during his lifetime, Ludwig M. Lachmann was always widely connected. The range of scholars whom he knew and with whom he communicated was truly impressive.

Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism is much more than a biography of the twentieth century’s great Austrian economist.