[Republished from Human Action (1949)] An essential element of the “unorthodox” doctrines, advanced both by all socialists and by all interventionists, is that the recurrence of depressions is a phenomenon inherent in the very operation, of the market economy. But while
Reprinted from Mises.org Inequality is a top news items for 2015 driven largely by the Baltimore riots, the minimum wage debate, Thomas Piketty’s bookCapital in the Twenty-First Century, and now the entry of socialist Bernie Sanders into the race for
As a child I was told by my grandfather to keep an eye out for old dimes and to keep them because while dimes minted before 1967 were 80% silver, dimes minted from 1968 onwards were 99.9% nickel. While both
[Introduction to Prices and Production and Other Works by F.A. Hayek. Reprinted from Mises.org] Friedrich A. Hayek was barely out of his twenties in 1929 when he published the German versions of the first two works in this collection, Monetary
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This article is excerpted from The Causes of the Economic Crisis and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression, chapter 3, part II, “Cyclical Changes in Business Conditions.” The Role of Interest Rates In our economic system, times of
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According to the economists of the Austrian School, artificial credit expansion is the primary factor behind the business cycle. Critics have tried to poke holes in the theory, but David Howden shows those holes are just an illusion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVR79OJgGvA&feature=youtu.be
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With another financial crisis fast approaching the cause of the ‘08 crash hasn’t been settled. Austrians generally line up on the side of the all-powerful Fed having lowering interest rates below what the market would produce, sending capital into malinvestments:
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[Testimony before US House Committee on Financial Services Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee, May 8, 2012] Do We Need a Central Bank? Without a central bank, how can a monetary system work? Don’t we need a central bank to
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[Testimony before US House Committee on Financial Services Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee, May 8, 2012] I specialize in the economic theory of organizations — their nature, emergence, boundaries, internal structure, and governance — a field that is increasingly
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[Human Action (1949)] Reprinted from Mises.org Media of exchange and money are market phenomena. What makes a thing a medium of exchange or money is the conduct of parties to market transactions. An occasion for dealing with monetary problems appears to
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Reprinted from Mises.org. Article originally appeared in the Freeman May, 1979 The Harmful Consequences We have now to examine the harm that the system does whether or not the pressure to reduce the reserve requirements is continuously successful. Let us
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Reprinted from Mises.org. This article originally appeared in The Freeman, May 1979. The present worldwide inflation has done, and will continue to do, immense harm. But it may eventually lead to one great achievement. It may make it possible to restore
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Re: Banks face pushback over surging compliance and regulatory costs Re: ECB warns of risks posed by shadow banking sector Dear Sirs: Nowhere in your excellent article about shareholder concern over whether banks are spending their regulatory compliance money wisely
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I thank this author: Bhansali, Vineer. 2015. “Look at Negative-Yielding Bonds as Insurance.” May 20; for mentioning an old publication of mine: Block, Walter E. 1978. “The Negative Rate of Interest: Toward a Taxonomic Critique,” The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary
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Reprinted from Mises.org “The world that disappeared in 1914 appeared, in retrospect, something like our picture of Paradise,” wrote the economist Cecil Hirsch in his June 1934 review of R.W. Hawtrey’s classic, The Art of Central Banking (1933). Hirsch bemoaned
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The Greek drama continues to unfold with the risk of a “Grexit” becoming increasingly likely. Yet, a large majority of the Greek people want to keep the euro. This would force the Greek government to live within its means, which
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Re: Where Greeks Are Stashing Their Cash Ludwig von Mises characterized the third and final stage of a currency’s collapse, where people are desperate to exchange their currency for almost anything of real value, as a “crack up boom”. Notice
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Reprinted from Zerohedge.com It’s official: the world has gone central-planner crazy. Monetary policy, whether in the form of “conventional” methods such as the micromanagement of policy rates or so-called “unconventional” measures such as QE, has proven utterly ineffective when it
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Reprinted from LewRockwell.com Lyndon McClellan is a small entrepreneur who owns and operates L & M Convenience Mart in Fairmont, North Carolina. L & M comprises a gas station, convenience store, and a small restaurant serving hot dogs, hamburgers, and catfish
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