From Mutual Aid is not, nor does it intend to be, a comprehensive study demonstrating the superiority of private social welfare efforts over government programs.
Ludwig von Mises established the foundations of modem Austrian economics while Irving Fisher established the foundations of modem mainstream macroeconomics and central bank policy.
Vedder and Gallaway's (2011) rejoinder to my comment on MacKenzie (2010) seems to fundamentally misunderstand both my comment's argument and the contribution of Rose (2010).
Whether the current recovery will strengthen, which appears to be the prevailing consensus, or whether unforeseen events in the financial arena abort it prematurely,
Most historians claim that Herbert Hoover adhered to a policy of laissez faire after the stock market crash of 1929. This laissez faire policy is allegedly responsible for the severity and persistence of unemployment
Butler Shaffer's well-written monograph, In Restraint of Trade, describes in extensive detail why and how most businessmen pleaded for the government to tame them between the end of World War I and the eve of World War II.
Austrians have demonstrated that recessions—and depressions—are the inevitable result of central bank intervention in the economy.
It is suggested in Daniel Kuehn’s article in this issue (2011) that MacKenzie (2010) is wrong about Hoover’s effectiveness in pushing a high wage policy that caused high unemployment.
Every economist who regards himself or herself as a free-market theorist and advocate should acquire, read, and retain this paean to planning and interventionism as a valuable reference—especially if he or she is also a political libertarian.
Kaza reviews Alan Greenspan's book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. Kaza asks "Which social acquaintance will defend Greenspan against the charge the seeds of the greatest
