The purpose of this course is to illustrate how Austrian monetary economics is used to analyze historical and current events and policies. The course will also cover controversies between Austrian and mainstream monetary theorists in interpreting the causes, consequences, and remedies for important episodes of monetary disorder. Topics will
Grove City College will host the eleventh annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference , February 20-21, 2015. Open to undergraduates and graduate students in any academic discipline, the ASSC will bring together students from colleges and universities across the country and around the world to present their own research papers written in the
Robert Wenzel reports: Ralph Nader is out with a new book ,Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State . The Washington Times reports : Among the “convergers,” he includes people “who call themselves conservatives, Libertarians, liberals, progressives, Republicans, Democrats, independents, Third Partiers,
Writes Luigi Pirri: We are happy to inform you that the Italian translation of Economic Science and the Austrian Method is now available thanks to Libreria San Giorgio. Here’s the link: Scienza economica e metodo austriaco [ Also here
2014’s Mises University concluded last Saturday evening following a full week of seminars, lectures, and many opportunities to work with Mises faculty and fellow students to discuss, learn, and plan for the future. Tom Woods kicked off the week with his Sunday-night talk “ The Role of Austrian Economics in the Liberty Movement ” in which he
Students began to arrive Sunday afternoon and by 5 pm, the Mises Institute was filled with students from around the nation, and around the world. Everyone had plenty to talk about. Dinner was served at 6 pm, and our faculty members were sure to sit with the students so our students could get to know them and ask them questions. At 7 pm, everyone
In addition to her shorter piece on the English Levellers, Roberta Modugno has provided this longer, footnoted piece as well, including: The Levellers were concerned with economic rights and these economic rights were a direct consequence of the right to self-ownership and included individual property rights, freedom to produce, sell, buy and
The non-chalant tone — look at those guys in the fever swamp — they think that debt is bad, it’s fine — Or at least that’s Matt Ygelias’s position. This video contains about the same amount of economic argument:
Jeff Deist and Peter St. Onge discuss some of the fundamental questions about money in this electronic age. What do Menger and Mises tell us about the origins of money? What’s the difference between “money” and a “medium of exchange”? Was Hayek right about degrees of
What is the Mises Institute?
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.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.