Jeff Deist has joined the Mises Institute as President, following many years as an advisor to Ron Paul and as a tax attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions for private equity clients. Jeff was Congressman Paul’s chief of staff during the 2012 election, and his press secretary in Congress from 2000 to 2006. He and his wife Paula have two
Bloomberg reports that gold is flowing from some Western vaults to China: “T he Chinese don’t want US dollars anymore, they want gold. “ In 2011, Dan O’Connor wrote on “China’s Hard-Money History: So deeply rooted in the culture were gold and silver that the Chinese people upheld a metallic currency longer than all Western nations, even though
Recently, Peter G. Klein appeared on the “The Wilkow Majority” radio program. In this excerpt, host Anthony Wilkow and Peter Klein discuss government intervention in healthcare and some of the resulting unintended consequences and market distortions.
Dave Howden, editor, has announced the release of the first issue of the new The Journal of Prices & Markets from the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada. This journal should be a great new outlet for Austrian influenced economists to complement QJAE and RAE. HT to all who worked so hard bring this new journal to fruition and congratulations to
This article from the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is an appreciation of economist B.R. Shenoy by Sandeep Prakash. Bellikoth Ragunath Shenoy was an Indian economist and teacher who produced many essays on Indian economic policy. Scholars of economic thought have neglected the importance of his work. In this essay I develop an analysis
Everyone loves (or loves to hate) these two articles about Ebenezer Scrooge’s many great economic services to humanity. Butler Shaffer writes in “ The Case for Ebenezer “: As I became older, I decided that Mr. Dickens had given Ebeneezer Scrooge an undeserved reputation for villainy, placing him in such company as Uriah Heep, Iago, Dr. Moriarty,
Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne explains some reasons why Overstock now accepts Bitcoins: Fortune: Do you own any bitcoins? Patrick Byrne: No. I own gold. Really, how much gold? A lot. Let’s just say enough that if zombies walked the Earth I will have enough gold that me and mine are taken care of. But you’re obviously a bitcoin fan. Why?
Mises Institute President Jeff Deist discusses the the Mises Institute and Austrian Economics on the Korelin Economics Report radio program. Click on Segments 7 and 8 to hear or download Jeff’s segment of the show. (Audio, approximately 20
Here is a letter I received about the Regression theorem: I’ve been thinking through this for a few days and wondered if you had any insight -- is the Regression Theorem a praxeological statement, or is it a heuristic device? If it is a praxeological statement, then it must be true, and we can deduce *a priori* truths from it on that basis (e.g.,
The December issue of The Free Market , the Mises Institute’s monthly, is now online. (A subscription is included with membership .) This month, Lew Rockwell discusses the future of the Mises Institute as an institution of higher learning: I think the Mises Institute represents the future of higher education. There has been so little innovation
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