Our friends at the Cato Institute have offered this podcast on the financial crisis. “The Financial Crisis Grinch” Featuring Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr. Novermber 24, 2008.
READ MOREThe past week has been a busy one for Atlas and the Sound Money project. Since last Thursday, we have traveled from D.C. to Philadelphia to Las Vegas. It has been a hectic, but rewarding journey. The Sound Money project has been gaining support at each …
READ MOREGood introductory text to the intellectual history of economics
READ MOREDate: Monday, April 19, 2010 Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm Location: George Mason University — SUB II, Room 7 Address: 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA The GMU Economics Society & the Atlas Sound Money Project invite you to attend a lecture wit …
READ MOREIn this video panel on Bloomberg.com, economic historian and author The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson, discusses the financial crisis and global recession with economist and author of This Time Is Different, Kenneth Rogoff. They both warn that the gl …
READ MOREIn this monograph, French economist Florin Aftalion sets out to rectify a great omission in most historical accounts of the French Revolution, namely to look at how economic, and especially monetary forces helped shape the dynamics of the revolution. B …
READ MOREOn Monday, April 5, the Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Econ Society hosted a lecture1 by Dr. Richard Ebeling, professor of economics at Northwood University and former president of the Foundation for Economic Education. Dr …
READ MOREIn this paper, John Munro of the Department of Economics, University of Toronto revisits the historical debate on the origins of the price revolution of the 16th century. Though some historians and economists have claimed that this event was caused by …
READ MOREThe financial crisis and global recession has brought traditional Keynesian policies back to the fore. However, not all economists are Keynesians now.
READ MORE“Inflation is a sustained increase in the aggregate price level. Hyperinflation is very high inflation. Although the threshold is arbitrary, economists generally reserve the term ‘hyperinflation’ to describe episodes when the monthly inflation rate is …
READ MORE“Almost everyone is aware that federal government spending in the United States is scheduled to skyrocket, primarily because of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Recent “stimulus” packages have accelerated the process. Only the naively optimisti …
READ MORE“What must be done to recover from this financial crisis? Barack Obama rightly stresses that we first must understand how today’s problems emerged. It is ‘only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of t …
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