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The Benefits of Free Trade Are Canceled Out by Domestic Interventionism

Free MarketsGlobal EconomyProtectionism and Free Trade

Blog12/05/2019Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Trade agreements have thus become obsolete tokens of negotiation in larger geopolitical disputes, protectionist tools for managing and interfering with global trade flows.

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The Cultural Consequences of Negative Interest Rates

Global EconomyMedia and CultureMoney and BanksAustrian Economics OverviewMonetary Theory

12/03/2019Audio/VideoJeff DeistRahim Taghizadegan

Rahim Taghizadegan from the independent Viennese Scholarium offers a European perspective on the anti-economics of negative interest rates

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How "Meaningless Words" Create the Narrative

Big GovernmentMedia and CultureStrategyPolitical Theory

11/21/2019Audio/VideoJeff Deist

Jeff Deist speaks at the 2019 Ron Paul Symposium in Lake Jackson, Texas.

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Austrian Economics Looks East

Decentralization and SecessionPolitical Theory

Blog11/20/2019Jeff Deist

It is up to us to reconsider Misesian liberal nationalism for the twenty-first century and create a vision for the present and beyond.

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Does Economic Theory Work in Business?

EducationThe EntrepreneurAustrian Economics OverviewEntrepreneurship

11/19/2019Audio/VideoJeff DeistHunter Hastings

Marketing guru Hunter Hastings offers a look at his new platform which uses Austrian theory to teach actionable entrepreneurship.

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Family Formation, Fertility, and Failure: A Literature Review on Price Increases and Their Impact on the Family Institution

Media and CultureMoney and Banks

11/06/2019Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsJeffrey Degner

Inflation not only debases currency, but damages the family institution, eroding the quantity and quality of marriages while creating distortions in the decision-making processes of those hoping to establish families.

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What Would Mises Think about the West Today?

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Blog10/30/2019Jeff Deist

What would Mises think about the current state of the liberal project he laid out 100 years ago?

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Trump and the WTO: It's Time to Dump Global "Free" Trade Bureaucrats

Bureaucracy and RegulationGlobal EconomyProtectionism and Free Trade

Blog10/29/2019Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Let the WTO and all its agreements go already! We cannot salvage something that was broken from the start.

Socialism and the Green New Deal: Choose One

Richard M. Ebeling

Central planners cannot calculate the costs and benefits of environmental policy.

When the Communists Abolished the Weekend

Ryan McMaken

By abolishing the weekend, the Soviets were in one move able to strike a blow against both families and religious institutions. All that was left was the state — and state-mandated labor.

My Path to the Austrian School of Economics

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

There is no more stopping the Mises School. And when the truth finally wins out, because only what is true can also work smoothly in the long run, then the hour of the Austrian School of Economics will have come.

How California's Government Plans to Make Wildfires Even Worse

Ryan McMaken

The State of California is now forcing insurance companies to cover homeowners who put their houses in some of the most fire-prone areas. What could go wrong?

We Don't Need Sunday "Blue Laws"

Ryan McMaken

Advocates for "blue laws" want to impose more laws on shopkeepers. These moral crusaders should instead start by setting a good example, and stop watching football games, ordering pizzas, or filling up on gas on Sunday.