How to Teach Austrian Economics in the Current Political Atmosphere
As the US political landscape shifts rapidly and college economics departments become increasingly hostile, the way we teach free-market economics will change.
As the US political landscape shifts rapidly and college economics departments become increasingly hostile, the way we teach free-market economics will change.
One of the most controversial areas in Austrian economics, and one where even long-established Austrian theorists differ sharply, is monopoly theory.
That man acts and that the future is uncertain are by no means two independent matters. They are only two different modes of establishing one thing.
In our time the most powerful theocratic parties are opposed to the world's great religions. Today's theocrats believe they alone can plan society and that they are enlightened.
Of course some of the private defense agencies will become criminal. But in a stateless society there would be no regular, legalized channel for crime and aggression.
Life lesson: Figure out what you love and do it and learn another language and get yourself a motorcycle and drive around the world.
The concept of capital is the fundamental concept of economic calculation, the foremost mental tool of the conduct of affairs in the market economy. Its correlative is the concept of income.
Austrian economics begins with logical deductions made from what we know about human action, not data sets that are subject to change.
This week Jeff is solo with very special guest Jimmy Rogers, the famed investor, Alabama native, and fan of Austrian economics.
"Let's celebrate the prodigious life of Lu Mises, a life in which he fused crowning insight on how the world tackles the law of scarcity, with lifelong moral courage."