Articles of Interest

The question posed by the title to this lecture raises a number of deep problems of economic science.

Doctrinally, "Keynesianism" would have to be regarded merely as a recent, one-way swing of the pendulum such as the world has often experienced before this time in the direction of distinct overvaluation of the possibilities and effects of monetary manipulations and alterations.

Delivered before the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New York City, February 3, 1944.

The text of a speech given by University of California at Los Angeles professor of economics Benjamin M.

This study guide is presented to assist the reader in following Hazlitt's deconstruction of Keynes.

Murray Rothbard The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device

Chapter 29 of Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise; "The Future".

From The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 2008.

From The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2005.

In its Kelo decision, the Supreme Court upheld Connecticut's decision to use its eminent domain powers to take property from one set of private owners and give it to another set of private owners.

Presented at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2008.

Ludwig von Mises Corel PDF Engine Version 11.4.0.100

The complete transcript of the Institute's famous documentary on the Federal Reserve.

Mises Institute 50 Great Pioneers of American Industry

Thanks to George Reisman for sharing this interesting letter with the Institute.

This scathing address delivered by Dr. Jordan at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board, 16 May 1946, one year after the end of World War II.

Indeed, the origins of economic theory itself can be traced to CantilIon. William Stanley Jevons, one of the cofounders of the marginalist revolution, and the economist who is generally credited with rediscovering Cantillon, called the Essai "a systematic and connected treatise, going over in a concise manner nearly the whole field of economics…. It is thus the first treatise on economics." He dubbed the work the "Cradle of Political Economy." Joseph Schumpeter, the great historian of economic thought and student of Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, described the Essai as "the first systematic penetration of the field of economics." In his treatise on the history of economic thought, Murray N. Rothbard named Cantillon "the founding father of modern economics."