We live at a time when politicians and bureaucrats only know one public policy: more and bigger government. Yet, there was a time when even those who served in government defended limited and smaller government. One of the greatest of these died one hundred years ago on August 27, 1914, the Austrian economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Böhm-Bawerk is
Since the economic crisis of 2008-2009, the Federal Reserve — America’s central bank — has expanded the money supply in the banking system by over $4 trillion, and has manipulated key interest rates to keep them so artificially low that when adjusted for price inflation, several of them have been actually negative. We should not be surprised if
Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1934, Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit first appeared in English. It remains one of the most important books on money and inflation penned in the twentieth century, and even eight decades later, it still offers the clearest analysis and understanding of booms and busts, inflations, and
Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction Edited and with an introduction by Richard M. Ebeling In the summer of 1940, Austrian Economist, Ludwig von Mises, arrived in the United States as a refugee from war ravaged Europe. One of the most well known--and controversial--economists of
Review of Friedrich Hayek: A Biography by Alan Ebenstein (New York: Palgrave, St. Martin’s Press, 2001). In the more than twenty-five years since Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics, dozens of books and collections of essays, as well hundreds of popular and scholarly articles, have been devoted to
Review of Time and Money (London/New York: Routledge, 2000) 272pp.. In the 1930s, there appeared several book-length surveys of contemporary monetary and business cycle theory. In each one of these Friedrich A. Hayek’s version of the Austrian theory of money, capital and the business cycle was given central prominence, along with the competing
Delivered as part of a panel devoted to “The Warfare State,” during the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Austrian Scholars Conference 8 , March 15-16, 2002 in Auburn, Alabama. The Classical Liberals of the nineteenth century were certain that the end of the old Mercantilist system--with its government control of trade and commerce, its bounties
The 20 th century was most certainly the most inhuman and brutal one hundred years in modern history. Two World Wars as well as the Nazi and Communist forms of totalitarianism have been estimated to have caused the death of at least 250 million people. This would be equivalent to the mass murder of the entire populations of Brazil, Argentina,
[Presented at a session on “Human Action After Sixty Years” at the Eastern Economic Association in New York City, February 26-March 1, 2009.] In September of 2009, it will be sixty years since the appearance of Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action, a Treatise on Economics , one of the truly great “classics” of modern economics. Often a “classic”
Our televisions screens have been full of those tragic pictures of the devastation and human hardship that have been caused by the earthquake in the Caribbean country of Haiti. Governments and private relief agencies are mustering their efforts to bring assistance to the survivors of this natural disaster, which may result in a death toll of
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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