Hazlitt’s Critique of Keynes: The 60th Anniversary
In 1959, Henry Hazlitt’s book, The Failure of the “New Economics,“ was published by D. Van Nostrand Company, a reputable but midsized publishing company. The book was subtitled An Analysis …
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The Origin and Nature of Money
Presented at the Mises Institute’s “First Annual Advanced Instructional Conference in Austrian Economics” at Stanford University; June 21–27, 1987. Mises WireThe Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in …
Monopoly and Antitrust
Presented at the Mises Institute’s “First Annual Advanced Instructional Conference in Austrian Economics” at Stanford University; June 21–27, 1987. Includes a Question and Answer period. Mises WireThe Mises Institute exists …
Time Preference
Presented at the Mises Institute’s “First Annual Advanced Instructional Conference in Austrian Economics” at Stanford University; June 21-27, 1987. Includes a Question and Answer period. Mises WireThe Mises Institute exists …
Marx and Left Revolutionary Hegelianism
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 11 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995).] Hegel’s death in 1831 inevitably ushered in a new and …
Pre-Misesians
Presented at the Mises Institute’s “First Annual Advanced Instructional Conference in Austrian Economics” at Stanford University; June 21-27, 1987. Mises WireThe Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in …
Consumer Preferences Are Harder to Measure than the Behavioral Economists Think
A recent paper in the Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP) has started a debate on the accuracy of “loss aversion,” the idea that people are driven by fear of losses …
A Message from Lew Rockwell
What a great year this has been for the Mises Institute! New books, productive conferences, more students than ever, all to advance the cause of economic freedom in academia and …
Paul Volcker: The Man Who Vanquished Gold
The flood of obituaries that noted the passing of Paul Volcker (1927-2019) last week have almost all lauded his achievement as Fed chair (1979-1987) in reining in the double-digit inflation …
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the …