Eamonn F. Butler

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10/03/2019 Mises Daily Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler

[This article is excerpted from the book Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation, chapter 2: “The Roman Republic and Empire.”] As might be expected, the Roman Republic...

Postwar Rent Controls

02/08/2012 Mises Daily Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler

Rent-control laws cause housing shortages.

Austrian Economics: A Primer

08/19/2010 Eamonn F. Butler

Here, Butler has written a very competent overview of Mises’s works and thoughts, with a focus on his understanding of the workings of markets (so, for example, there is less focus on theory than we find in The Essential von Mises). Economists shape

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