Bastiat’s Legacy in Economics
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801 — 1850) is one of the greatest economists ever.
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Beware the Alchemists
A book-length manuscript based on notes taken by Bettina B. Greaves during the Mises Seminar in New York in the 1960s.
The Celebrated Adam Smith
Originally published as chapter 16 in An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. I
There Is No Such Thing as a Fair Tax
Writes Laurence Vance: the FairTax Plan—a proposal to replace the current system of federal taxes with a national sales tax is a disaster waiting to happen.
Happy Birthday Ms. Lane!
Today, December 5, marks the birthday of Rose Wilder Lane (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) born 1886 and died 1968.
New Face, Old Menace
By focusing on the symptoms rather than causes, there is no way that one can make an economy more healthy and prosperous.
Remembering Thomas Babington Macaulay
One of the best writers of the old liberal school was Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800-1859), the Whig historian, essayist and statesman.
The Myth of the Magical Multiplier
These days, writes Frank Shostak, it is commonly accepted that the motor of the economy is overall demand for goods. Hence the growth of an economy is dependent on the strength of this motor.
