An Austrian Economist Reports From a Mainstream Economics Conference

Christopher Westley reports from this year's National Association of Business Economists Convention. He finds that the mainstream's intellectual blinders are firmly in place, and that the “fatal conceit” Friedrich Hayek wrote about in 1988 is alive and well in 2014.

Is the Surge in Capital Goods Orders Due to Malinvestment?

October 15 • Frank Shostak

Capital goods purchases suggest economic growth, but if orders are a result of easy money, purchases point not to wealth creation, but to a bubble.

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Carmen Elena Dorobăț: Trade as Good as Gold—or, How the Hanseatic League Thrived without Debt
We’re often told that international trade thrives on debt. In an especially risky line of business, financial intermediation, with its loans and guarantees, is the indispensable infrastructure for the progress of commerce. Perhaps entrepreneurs would ... More »

Ryan McMaken: Market Choices in Cannabis, Plus Cooking Classes
As part of a follow-up to my article on cannabis industry and its many related industries, I picked up a copy of Culture magazine, which bills itself as the #1 cannabis lifestyle magazine at a Denver pizza place. I was intrigued by the ads. A l ... More »

Ryan McMaken: Happy 90th Birthday, Leland B. Yeager!
Last week, the Mises Institute hosted a reception in Ward Conservatory in honor of Dr. Leland B. Yeager's 90th birthday. Leland Yeager is Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Auburn University. Here is a 1991 interview from ... More »

Ryan McMaken: The Economics of Sports Stadiums
Mark Thornton discusses the crony capitalism of sports stadiums on Freedom Works Radio. ... More »

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Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth Pocket Edition

by: Mises, Ludwig von
$8.00

This is the essay that overthrew the socialist paradigm in economics, and provided the foundation for modern Austrian price theory. When it first appeared in 1920, Mises was alone in challenging the s... More »

The Law

by: Bastiat, Frederic
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How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in j... More »

Anatomy of the State

by: Rothbard, Murray N.
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This gives a succinct account of Rothbard&rsquo;s view of the state. Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity. It does not produce anything... More »