Banking, Inflation and Recessions
The Adam Smith Institute has recently published videos of their Liberty Lectures, held at Cass Business School last August. The room was overflowing with…
Handbook on Contemporary Austrian Economics
I’m delighted to have received a hard copy of the “Handbook on Contemporary Austrian Economics“. Here’s the blurb: This Handbook looks through the lens…
The emerging view on QE2
This article originally appeared on The Filter^ Further to my article on QE2, I’ve read some good articles on the subject. Raghu Rajana offers…
The Threat of QE2
From my latest article for adamsmith.org: There is a plausible free market argument to say that under certain institutional conditions (such as competitive banks…
What Austrian business cycle theory does and does not claim as true
In May I linked to an article I wrote over at the IEA blog: What Austrian business cycle theory does and does not claim…
My talk on “Contemporary work in Austrian Economics”
Towards the end of September I gave a talk on “Contemporary work in Austrian Economics” for the Adam Smith Institute. It was part of…
Who predicted the financial crisis?
I’m currently writing a paper that asks (and possibly helps to answer) this question, and I am curious about something. We all know it’s…
Do banks mislead their customers?
This article is an attempt to encourage people to move away from making empirical assertions without any empirical evidence – to actually look at…
The Filter^: Austrian Economics – A Primer
I have posted some brief comments on Eamonn Butler’s excellent new Primer: This primer does a great job condensing and summarising the Austrian school,…
Are “normal” businesses 100% reserved?
When discussing the “fraudulent” nature of fractional-reserve banking, the crux of the issue seems to be how the law distinguishes between banks and other…