The motive powers of destructionism
Its a great pleasure to wake up in the morning on holiday and read something very true, as always, from Mises. Its also a…
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The hope of Osborne and the error of Osborne
The following quote is taken from page 155 of Capital and Production by Richard von Strigl, which you can download in PDF format from…
Read MoreThe ultimate subsidy for the rich
I am delighted that Fraser Nelson and the Spectator have picked up something we have been saying all the time for our nearly three…
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Gross and net product
The other day I happened to be talking to a politician who was also a successful entrepreneur. He knew of the absurdity that when…
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Did the savings glut or massive monetary expansion cause the boom and the bust?
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recently pinned the blame for the financial crisis on “Asia’s `Savings Glut’”. This idea is not new. For readers who may have missed…
Read MoreDebt bomb
One for the weekend … A work of brilliance from Dominic Frisby:
Read MoreForeword to Liberalism
It was a great pleasure and a privilege to be asked by Jeff Tucker of Laissez Faire Books to write this foreword to Liberalism,…
Read MoreHugh Hendry v. Joseph Stiglitz
I received this YouTube clip from a friend of the Cobden Centre and I think it is fantastic. It shows the fundamental banality of…
Read MoreFraud
This is a documentary that is long overdue, written from the perspective of the Austrian School. These are the economists of Business Cycle Theory…
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A Viennese waltz down Wall Street – Austrian economics for investors
Next Tuesday our friend Mark Skousen will be delivering a lecture for the Adam Smith Institute, which may be of interest to Cobden Centre…
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