Economics Roundtable

Years ago, H.L. Mencken noted that "every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods." Since then, the tendency for electoral politics to undermine property rights has grown exponentially. For example, current presidential candidates treat it as a bragging point to claim that the ...

Here I go again -- here's the text of something like what I said on my tour of Poland in December.

Whatever religious differences you have with me, please denounce me via email rather than in the comment section.

A memorably painful part of my graduate education consisted of my attempts to read and understand Samuelson's landmark book Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947), a treatise in mathematical economic theory, patterned after classical thermodynamics, that set the tone for much of what the cleverest mainstream economists would do ...

As you may already know from the recent Mises blog post, I have successfully defended my dissertation as of Tuesday April 22. It should be available on line shortly and I plan to publish several papers in scholarly journals from its chapters as well as a book project to be ...

Over the past few months, I have become increasingly irritated with the confident press claim that recessions lead to lower rates of price inflation. For reasons that I myself do not understand, a recent Wall Street Journal piece pushed me over the edge, and the article you ...

One of the chief drawbacks of Latin American Dependency Theory (aside from the fact that it immorally restricts trade) is that it renders domestic industries decrepit due to isolation from innovations in global markets.

Such is now the case with Mexico's ailing, inefficient, and outdated oil industry which ...

Thorsten Polleit argues in case of Misesian apriorism (praxeology) within economics at the Mises Institute web site. The article has many good points and should for that reason be read, but I have two problems with it.

First of all, it bases the case for praxeology on Kantian ...

A very nice review here. I hadn't really thought of how this book is capable of being a kind of summary statement of political views for a generation of young activists -- defining and refining.

John T. Flynn explains the idea and the movement. Whether Fascism was capitalist or anticapitalist, labor or antilabor, no one could say until the leaders themselves decided upon a course of action. It was improvised as the movement went along. It is government system that accepts responsibility to ...

We now have Ron Paul's book in, and I must say that it is very impressive. It is not just a campaign book. Actually it isn't one at all. It is a world-view book, issue by issue, and very compellingly argued. I would hesitate at all ...