Mises Seminar in Birmingham
Mises WireThe Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von …
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Two Views on Social Order: Conflict or Cooperation?
[This talk was delivered on June 1, 2007, at the Future of Freedom Foundation‘s Conference on “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Affairs and Civil Liberties.”] There are two clear and present …
Family Formation, Fertility, and Failure: A Literature Review on Price Increases and Their Impact on the Family Institution
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 22, no. 2 (Summer 2019) full issue. ABSTRACT: Inflation not only debases the value of currency by lowering purchasing power. It also serves to erode …
Will the Drive to Devalue the Dollar Lead to a Plaza Accord 2.0?
The Lead-Up to the Plaza Accord To understand the Plaza Accord, one has to look back to August 15, 1971. On this day Richard Nixon closed the gold window. This …
Argentina’s Faux “Neoliberalism”
On August 11, 2019, the presidential ticket of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner pulled off a major electoral upset against incumbent President Mauricio Marci in the Argentine primary …
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous explains why Austrian economics helps us understand Bitcoin, and how Bitcoin can help us understand Austrian economics. Presented at the Libertarian Scholars Conference on 28 September 2019, at …
What Economic Progress Means
[Excerpted from chapter 10 of Theory and History.] The ideas of historicism can be understood only if one takes into account that they sought exclusively one end: to negate everything …
Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War
Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold WarLindsey A. O’RourkeCornell University Press, 2018330 pages Lindsey O’Rourke has given us a devastating indictment of the foreign policy of the United States …
Isabel Aneyba: Listening From the Heart and the Techniques of Empathy
Per Bylund teaches us to explore the only two fields that matter for entrepreneurial success: understanding the laws of economics and understanding the mind of the customer. Isabel Aneyba is …
The US Dollar Beast
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) explains very well how to predict the winner of a beauty contest successfully. You must, he noted, think along the following lines: “(…) each competitor has …