According to this Mises U alum, Mises U experience can be applied to some degree programs: Thank you @mises Just found out I’m getting Field Study credits at Virginia Tech for my time at Mises U this summer! pic.twitter.com/WiG5fEnOEK — Anti State (@AdamBlacksburg) December 12,
Rothbard’s The Essential von Mises which includes Rothbard’s biographical monograph Ludwig von Mises: Scholar Creator Hero is now available in Japanese, thanks, yet again, to the efforts of Tatsuya Iwakura. Both are available in one volume now available as an ebook on Amazon. Following is a part of the ‘book description’ of Amazon
Mike Konczal objects to the typical sequence of a first-year economics curriculum: a semester of microeconomics, studying individuals, firms, and markets, followed by a semester of macroeconomics, looking at the economy as a whole. Austrian economists generally reject the artificial distinction between micro and macro, as taught in the mainstream
Now available on Amazon is the Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought from Sage Publications. Sage was nice enough to ask me to write the section on conservatism in the encyclopedia. The type of conservatism discussed is primarily the global conservative tradition of Burke, Maistre, Metternich, and Pius IX, with some references to the American
Guest Post: After 100 Years Of Failure, It’s Time To End The Fed! by Ron Paul A week from now, the Federal Reserve System will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. Resulting from secret negotiations between bankers and politicians at Jekyll Island, the Fed’s creation established a banking cartel and a board of government overseers that
I just came across a new book, Economic Thinkers: A Biographical Encyclopedia , edited by David Dieterle. I was suspicious when I saw Bernanke and Greenspan on the book cover, but the book covers a wide range of economists in terms of time and philosophical outlook. Each of the entries is meant to provide an introduction to the “economic thinkers”
Today is the 240th anniversary of the act of civil disobedience against taxation, corporatism, and colonialism known as the Boston Tea Party. The economics of the situation that precipitated the event were quite complex, however, and about more than a simple tax increase on tea. As noted here by Edmond Bradley , a monopoly over the tea trade had
In this episode of the Mises Academy Podcast, Tom Woods interviews Danny Sanchez, Director of Mises Academy, who explains Ludwig von Mises’ approach to economics. Here it is in Youtube
Associated Scholar Per Bylund writes: I just got a paper accepted for publication in the journal Managerial and Decision Economics . “Explaining Firm Emergence: Specialization, Transaction Costs, and the Integration Process” Abstract: This article explains firm emergence and the role of firms in the market structure using the productive power of
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