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• Reality Economics

  Posted: September 6th, 2010, 11:41am PDT by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

  For more than two years now, and even longer depending on your dating scheme, the federal government has waged war on the reality of the incredible Fed-fueled bubble that developed in housing with spillover effects on the rest of economic life. That ...

• Patenting Regulation

  Posted: September 6th, 2010, 6:59am PDT by S.M. Oliva

  Bryan McKenzie of the Charlottesville Daily Progress reports that small banks are confused by new federal “regulations” that seem to appear at random:With a quarter-century in the industry, Patricia G. Satterfield has long recognized that regulation of banks is a subjective practice. But the ...

• The Market? The NYT Contemplates the Unthinkable

  Posted: September 6th, 2010, 6:32am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker

  You know, there are some laugh-out-loud moments in this New York Times piece that dares to imagine the unthinkable: Housing Woes Bring New Cry: Let Market Fall.As the economy again sputters and potential buyers flee — July housing sales sank 26 percent from July ...

• The Relation of Cost to Value

  Posted: September 6th, 2010, 5:59am PDT by Mises Daily

  Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was Mises’s great teacher. Here is a very early statement (1891) on the cost controversy, published in English. It demonstrates why Böhm-Bawerk remains a standard-bearer of the Austrian tradition. FULL ARTICLE by Eugen von Böhm-BawerkJoin the discussion and ...

• What’s the Right Thing to Do?

  Posted: September 6th, 2010, 5:58am PDT by Mises Daily

  Libertarianism does not claim to encompass the whole of morality. Quite the contrary, it asks only, when is force or the threat of force permissible? The answer to this question delimits a sphere of rights, but not everything that is within one’s rights ...

• The Fed and the Ratchet Effect

  Posted: September 6th, 2010, 5:57am PDT by Mises Daily

  Once the monetary interventions start, they can’t be stopped. The economy requires ever more of the same to fix the problems created by the first round. This is the ratchet effect that Robert Higgs applies to statist policies in general. FULL ARTICLE ...

• Krugman’s War Fantasies

  Posted: September 6th, 2010, 4:20am PDT by William Anderson

  According to Paul Krugman, it seems that World War II created a foundation for long-run prosperity. Yes, what we really need is to add to our deficit and debt in ways unimaginable. (Thank goodness, Krugman does not recommend that our armed forces invade yet ...

• Boardwalk Empire

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 3:32pm PDT by Douglas French

  “I hate to say it, but before TV people spoke better and were better read than we are,” Terence Winter tells the New York Times. “They were probably more literate.” What Winter, who along with Martin Scorsese, is an executive producer of HBO’s ...

• Roberts and Pink on Incentives

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 9:27am PDT by Robert Blumen

  Econtalk host Russ Roberts interviews author Daniel Pink on the topic Drive, Motivation and Incentives in last week’s podcast. Pink’s message is that a substantial body of empirical evidence shows that people are only motivated to a limited extent by money to increase ...

• The Intellect and Personality of J.M. Keynes

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 6:09am PDT by Dennis Sperduto

  The following is an elaboration of Jeremiah Dyke’s informative September 4, 2010 posting, “Keynes, The Intellectual Lightweight.”I am certainly not qualified to assess Keynes’s overall learning and intellectual capabilities. However, his education in and knowledge of economics was rudimentary and insular, hence the collection of ...

• Keynes, The Intellectual Lightweight

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 5:30am PDT by Jeremiah Dyke

  “Between the years of 1911 to 1915 John Maynard Keyes was the principal reviewer of German Books for Economic Journal (see footnote 12, here)” It was during this time frame that “Maynard”, as Rothbard often referred to him, reviewed Mises path breaking 1912 book ...

• Tom Woods Starts on Monday!

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 2:41pm PDT by Jeffrey Tucker

  The New Deal: History, Economics and Law taught by Thomas Woods. The technology is incredible, the content even more so. No matter where you are, you can be a student of Thomas Woods.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:...

• What is Wrong with Paul Allen’s View of the World

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:53am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker

  Patent-enforcement madness often seems to have much in common with terrorism, but there is a bright side. It is helping more and more people think through the nature of competition, marketing, government privilege, what can and can’t be property, and other important considerations. It has ...

• The Skinny on American Academia

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:02am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker

  From the Economist: “America’s universities lost their way badly in the era of easy money. If they do not find it again, they may go the way of GM.”Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Good Research Universities?...

• Used Car Prices, Yikes

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:56am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker

  Edmunds Daily is reporting 10-40% increases in used car prices over last year. H/T J Jacoby.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Commodity Prices and Inflation: What’s the Connection?Does ...

• Milgram Experiment Redux

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:18am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker

  Jeff Riggenbach’s extraordinary article today recalls the revealing results of the Milgram Experiment in 1961, and describes the political implications. Here is a documentary showing a repeat of the experiment. The results are reproduced time and again.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated ...

• The Milgram Experiment

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:30am PDT by Mises Daily

  If the learner made an error, the teacher would administer an electric shock to the learner by remote control, pressing a button on a control console. Each electric shock administered would be stronger than the one before. FULL ARTICLE by Jeff RiggenbachJoin ...

• Bad Monetary Policy Is Redundant

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:29am PDT by Mises Daily

  The Austrian theory of the trade cycle explains why the Fed’s below-market interest rates invariably lead to a correction known as the bust. The theory is not new. Why has it been so out of favor with most economists? FULL ARTICLE by ...

• If a Pure Market Economy Is So Good, Why Doesn’t It Exist?

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:27am PDT by Mises Daily

  By eliminating the analytical straightjacket imposed by neoclassical economics, economists could have a lot more to offer about how to improve the world. They would start thinking about changing preferences, not just incentives. FULL ARTICLE by Edward Strigham and Jeffrey Rogers HummelJoin ...

• Faculty Spotlight Interview: David Gordon

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 4:52am PDT by Faculty Spotlight

  David Gordon covers new books in economics, politics, philosophy, and law for The Mises Review, the quarterly review of literature in the social sciences, published since 1995 by the Mises Institute. He is author of The Essential Rothbard, Resurrecting Marx, and The ...

• Mises.org on the iPad

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 10:36pm PDT by David Veksler

  If you have a chance to try it, Mises.org works really great on the iPad. With the new Stanza catalog, all the audio and most video, and of course the full website, it makes for a great Austrian economics consumption device. Please comment below ...

• Strange Economic Headlines

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 9:54am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker

  Economy Avoids Recession Relapse as Data Can’t Get Much WorseJoin the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:State = Death and PovertyBecause the government can work magic...

• The Hoppe Shirt!

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 9:18am PDT by Mises Store Updates

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe is one of the giants of liberty in our time. He has contributed to economic theory (firming up property rights theory), ethics (providing an epistemological foundation for individualism), philosophy (deductivism has never been so compelling), and politics (democracy is the ...

• Boomtown Exodus

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 8:56am PDT by Douglas French

  Back in the boom, Sin City’s population grew by nearly 200 each day. The Las Vegas metro area had a population of just over 1.2 million in 1998 and a decade later it was nearly 1.9 million.But now with an unemployment rate approaching 15%, the ...

• Who was wrong on the housing bubble?

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 7:25am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker

  It’s a fascinating list put together by Economics of Contempt. Perhaps it is biased but I note the number of free-market thinkers here, people with a supply-side bias who do not have the Austrian theory of the business cycle figured into their intellectual apparatus.At ...