History
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Business Cycles in Powerpoint
Dr. Roger Garrison, Professor of Economics at Auburn University, has constructed a variety of useful slideshow presentations to aid students in understanding the workings of the market system. For those […]
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Hayek’s Contribution to Monetary Theory
“Those who wish to preserve freedom should recognize, however, that inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more […]
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“The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle”
“Nowadays it is usual in economics to talk about the Austrian theory of the trade cycle. This description is extremely flattering for us Austrian economists, and we greatly appreciate the […]
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Let’s Talk Some Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle
“For the graduate students, my focus is both to communicate the basic idea (and research puzzles) of how to study intertemporal coordination. I have asked them to think about the […]
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Market Interest Rates Need to Tell the Truth
“In the free market, interest rates perform the same functions as all other prices: to provide information to market participants; to serve as an incentive mechanism for buyers and sellers; […]
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What Austrian Economics Can Tell Us about the Crisis
The recent financial crisis has called into question several basic tenets of mainstream macroeconomics. In the words of William White, former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), […]
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Wolf and Krugman Discuss Austrian Economics
Martin Wolf (Financial Times) and Paul Krugman (New York Times) discuss Austrian economics.
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Lessons from the History of Financial Regulation
Charles W. Calomiris, who is Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has recently published a paper on the lessons […]
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In a Culture of Excess, the Fat Cats will Rule
“Free market economists are not necessarily defenders of business. Crony capitalism has a long history. Mercantilism was a form of crony capitalism, and was the main target of Adam Smith’s […]
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“Academia’s War Against Free Market Money”
“In a confrontational and much-needed LewRockwell.com article, Prof. William Anderson launched a counter-attack against mainstream academic economists’ refusal to consider seriously the Austrian School’s theory of money. Despite the fact […]
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Mark Skousen – The Making of Modern Economics
Good introductory text to the intellectual history of economics
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Dr. Richard Ebeling to talk at GMU!
Our friends at the GMU Economics Society & the Future of Freedom Foundation invite you to the last installment of the Economic Liberty Lecture Series of this year with Dr. Richard […]