Speech in Tirana on Robotics, AI and the Future of War
byI recently gave this lecture in Tirana on AI and robotics in warfare – even with the developments in Ukraine and elsewhere, most people…
Economics
A great deal of ruin
by“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” “I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes…
Will there be a boom after Gulf War Three?
byWith the Third Gulf War raging since late February, the prophecies of economic doom have been rolling in ever since. Iran’s economy is predicted…
The true tax reduction is reduction in government outlays
byBy Dr Frank Shostak Projects that the government undertakes are likely to be of a questionable nature. The fact that the private sector did…
Speech in Budapest “Is the West in Civilisational Decline?”
byMax Rangeley speech in Budapest, “Is the West in Civilisational Decline?” – in this speech I talk through different theories of the rise and…
Fortune Through Labour
by“Tu fortunam laboribus indages”, what a Tuscan city can teach us about the cultural roots of capitalism and the challenges they face today. By…
Freedom Upsets Patterns: The Deregulation Argument Westminster Will Not Have
byThe UK does not have an energy problem. It has a freedom problem. By Elias Sanchez The United Kingdom’s economic deceleration is conventionally attributed…
The Damage Still Done by Keynesian Economics, 90 Years On
byThis year marks the 90th anniversary of the beginning of modern macroeconomics with the publication of John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest,…
Speech in Vienna on Robotics and the Future of War
byI recently gave this speech in Vienna, talking through Europe’s lack of a robotics industry compared to the US and China, and the disastrous consequences of…
The Theory of the Bottom 99 Percent: The Cantillon Effect
byBy Mark Thornton I want to dispel the claim in the minds of the establishment media that depicts free market Austrian economists as heartless…