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Why Economics Needs Philosophy

Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

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People criticized economics and said “well, there’s something wrong with Austrian economics because it doesn’t depend on verifying things empirically,” Mises wanted to come up with a reply to that, so that was what really got him into philosophy.
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Skidelsky's Push for Modern Mercantilism

Financial MarketsInterventionism

05/30/2019The Austrian
Skidelsky manifests an inordinate distaste for money and “greed.” Far better in his eyes is the pursuit of power by the State, even at the cost of wars and massive public debt. Some of us will not agree.
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Alienated America

Free MarketsPolitical Theory

05/29/2019The Austrian
Readers of Alienated America will gain much from Carney’s account of civil society. The free market rests on a stable civil society, not on isolated individuals.
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Rothbard's Editor on the Mentor He Never Met

BiographiesHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

05/29/2019The Austrian
Without Rothbard Austrian economics and libertarianism would have taken a very different turn.
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What Mises Could Teach Today's Nationalists

SocialismPolitical Theory

02/12/2019The Austrian
Dr. Gordon analyzes Yoram Hazony's new book The Virtue of Nationalism , in which Dr. Gordon examines Hazony's flawed but useful critique of political universalism.
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A Young Scholar on Mises’s Legacy and Impact

Austrian Economics Overview

02/02/2019The Austrian
Carmen Dorobăț, talks about growing up in post-Cold-War Romania and teaching today's economics and business students, who have been so thoroughly indoctrinated into the idea that governments can solve all the world's economic problems.
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Small Is Better: A Review of Human Scale Revisited

Decentralization and Secession

11/27/2018The Austrian
Is smaller better? Sometimes. But we also know that the power of the state is often used to grow institutions beyond what would be their natural size in a freer world.
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On My Life's Work

BiographiesHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

11/24/2018The Austrian
In this interview with Jeff Deist, Lew Rockwell discusses the founding of the Mises Institute, Murray Rothbard, and whether or not the good guys are winning.
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Why Free Markets Are Better than Globalism

Big GovernmentSocialismStrategy

11/07/2018The Austrian
For Quinn Slobodian, economic arguments for the market are mere business propaganda. He does not grasp that the argument for free exchange follows from elementary economic theory.
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The Libertarian Face of New Media

BiographiesMedia and Culture

11/03/2018The Austrian
An interview with Tom Woods about free-market podcasting and writing all those bestsellers.
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