Topic: History

“Here’s Why the Fed Plan Is Failing: We’re All Austrians Now” – CNBC

– November 24, 2010

“We may all be Austrians now. Not since the New Deal has Austrian economics enjoyed the political popularity it does now. Austrian economists are awfully popular with the Republican Party, especially its Tea Party wing. Peter Schiff, the Austrian econo …

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Larry White on the Business Cycle

– November 11, 2010

Peter Boettke over on Coordination Problem posted an excellent video of Larry White discussing the Austrian theory of the business cycle. Enjoy!

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I’ll Side With Mises: Would Friedman’s Logic Lead Us to QE2? – Peter Boettke

– November 3, 2010

“For some of the reasons that have been supported here by Steve and George, a WSJ editoral argues that Milton Friedman’s monetary policy analysis could be used to defend QE2 in our current economic context. I remain unpersuaded that any of these argume …

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“Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle” – F.A. Hayek

– October 27, 2010

“It seems certain, however, that we shall merely make matters worse if we aim at curing the deflationary symptoms and, at the same time (by the erection of trade barriers and other forms of state intervention) do our best to increase rather than to dec …

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Sound Money at the Liberty Forum! Nov. 10

– October 27, 2010

In The Constitution of Liberty, F.A. Hayek advised: “All those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy”. Sound Money will have a special panel during Atlas’s upcoming Liberty Fo …

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Messynomics and the Troubles with Money – Peter Boettke

– October 19, 2010

“Money is non-neutral, and the capital structure in an economy consists of combination of heterogeneous capital goods that multiple-specific uses. Once these propositions are included in the analysis, along with other messy aspects of the real world, o …

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Peter Lewin to Speak at the University of Texas at Dallas! – Oct. 12 & 14, Nov. 17

– October 12, 2010

Sound Money at Atlas is happy to announce that Peter Lewin*, will be giving three lectures on “The Austrian Capital Theory and the Business Cycle” at the University of Texas at Dallas.    The dates of the lectures are as follows:   October 12th, 2:30 p …

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“It’s Time for a 21st Century Gold Standard”

– October 11, 2010

“No monetary system, including gold, is perfect. But the evidence is that the gold standard is a recipe for lower-than-predicted federal interest rates (quelling the coming fiscal crisis); lower corporate bond rates (jobs); and lower mortgage rates (re …

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Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History

– September 29, 2010

“Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman — dubbed ‘the Oliver Stone of economists’ by the Chicago Tribune — makes clear once and for all that no one, from the local corner merchant to the Wall Street banker to the president of the United States, is immune …

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“The Lag in Effect of Monetary Policy”

– September 29, 2010

“First, discretionary policy at times tends to be dominated by goals other than, and even contradictory to, stabilization (for example, pegging bonds yields, halting gold outflows), whereas the automatic framework cannot be so readily exploited for oth …

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Here Today, Keynes Tomorrow

– September 27, 2010

“Keynesian ideas seem to pop up time and time again, especially in times of crisis. Keynes himself even sensed the impact his theories were going to have. When Keynes was writing the General Theory he wrote to George Bernard Shaw in 1935, “…you have to …

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Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory

– September 20, 2010

“The intentionally limited task to which I intend to devote myself in the following pages is that of writing a critical history of the theoretical problem of interest. I shall endeavour to set down in their historical development the scientific efforts …

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