Michael Perelman argues that economics is not an objective science, but an ideology, an apologia for capitalism promoted by the mercantile classes and their intellectual vanguard. Richard Vedder says “[a]s neo-Marxist accounts go, this one is far less polemical and hysterical than some, but it still simply does not accord with critical facts.” Of
Thomas Piketty’s Sensational New Book Thomas Piketty, a 42-year-old economist from French academe has written a hot new book : Capital in the Twenty-First Century . The U.S. edition has been published by Harvard University Press and, remarkably, is leading the best seller list; the first time that a Harvard book has done so. A recent review
Intellectuals, particularly academic intellectuals, tend to favor socialism and interventionism. How was the American university transformed from a center of higher learning to an outpost for socialist-inspired culture and politics? As recently as the early 1950s, the typical American university professor held social and political views quite
The 2016 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded today to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström , two of the most eminent economists specializing in the analysis of contracting and organizational structure. Hart, a British economist who teaches at Harvard, and Holmström, originally from Finland and now teaching at MIT, are leading practitioners of the
The University of Chicago’s Richard Thaler has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in economics . Thaler is a leading practitioner of behavioral economics, the application of psychology to problems of valuation, choice, exchange, and pricing. Following Mises, most Austrian economists have distinguished sharply between praxeology, the logical
El Premio Nobel de Economía 2021 ha sido concedido a David Card, de Berkeley, a Josh Angrist, del MIT, y a Guido Imbens, de Stanford, por su trabajo sobre los «experimentos naturales», un enfoque actualmente de moda para estimar el impacto causal de una variable económica sobre otra. Card, por supuesto, se hizo famoso dentro y fuera de la
Los intelectuales, en particular los académicos, tienden a favorecer el socialismo y el intervencionismo. ¿Cómo se transformó la universidad estadounidense de un centro de enseñanza superior a un puesto de avanzada para la cultura y la política de inspiración socialista? A principios de los años 50, el típico profesor universitario estadounidense
Richard Thaler, de la Universidad de Chicago, ha ganado el premio Nobel de economía de este año . Thaler es un importante seguidor de la economía conductista, la aplicación de la psicología a problemas de valoración, decisión, intercambio y precios. Siguiendo a Mises, la mayoría de los economistas austriacos han distinguido claramente entre la
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.