Booms and Busts
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In Defense of Deflation
"Deflation is one of the great scarecrows of present day economic policy and monetary policy in particular,"
Remarks About the Popular Interpretation of the “Industrial Revolution”
Indeed, deplorable conditions existed, but one must not blame the factory owners, who did all they could to eradicate them.
Skyscrapers and the Housing Crisis
Shows how Austrian economics is basis of Skyscraper Index, which has correctly predicted most economic and housing crises of 20th century.
The Great Depression
Looks at causes of the 1929 crash and ensuing depression, with lessons for today. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
The Mises Circle: The Bubble Economy
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Turning Bread into Stones
Combine loose money with flawed financial theories and the creation of byzantine financial products, and ultimately modern financial alchemy "has a distinctly statist and paternalist tone, and one which, taken to its logical conclusion, implies the establishment of nothing less than a world government with the power to redistribute most of our income at will," explain the authors.
The Economy: What’s Next?
Tom Kowitz and Michele Gaudin of WGSO 990AM, New Orleans, interview Professor Walter Block, 17 July 2010.
Catallactic Unemployment
In a free market, an unemployed man has always chosen unemployment over working in a place, at a time, in a way, or for a wage that he dislikes, wr
Gathering Data while Washington Burns
"The necessary result of the adoption of this empiricist epistemological and methodological model was that social scientists would always be behind the curve of any emerging social phenomenon."
