Richard Cantillon: An Essay on Economic Theory
byI have just stumbled upon a new translation of Cantillon’s “An Essay on Economic Theory” (Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général), rewritten…
Adventures in Economics: An Interview with Richard M. Ebeling
byThis interview appeared in the February 2011 issue of the “Lara-Murphy Report,” published by the United Services & Trust Corp., Nashville, Tennessee, www.usatrustonline.com, and…
Sign up to see Atlas Shrugged part 1
byIt was brought to my attention that a film version of a book was about to be released on 15 April. The book is of…
Jim Rickards: Perpetual Quantitative Easing
byYou might remember a couple of months ago that Jim Rickards came up with the intriguing theory that the Federal Reserve in the United…
Is there a place for experimental economics?
byEconomists have always been envious of the practitioners of the natural and exact sciences. They have thought that introducing the methods of natural sciences…
Monetarists’ blind spot on quantitative easing
byMy latest article for the IEA: The Austrian school agrees that monetary policy errors were the cause of the recession, but believes that these…
A late one for the weekend: Money From Nothing
byThe Internet is becoming a real problem for the world’s propagators of printed paper money, because from its modern western invention in Massachusetts, in…
TCC ideas go down well with 100 YBF youngsters
byA couple of days ago I was delighted to address 100 students and youngsters involved with the Young Britons Foundation. Led by Donal Blaney,…
Audio: Eliminating Monetary Externalities
byThe Mises Institute has released a recording of the Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, recorded on Thursday in Auburn, Alabama, at their Austrian Scholars…
Federal Reserve Accounting and Its Solvency
byA good article from Jeffrey Rogers Hummel at George Mason’s History News Network: The Federal Reserve’s H.4.1 Release for January 6, 2011, announced an…