Uninformed critics of Austrian economics sometimes dismiss it as “religion, not analysis.” Perhaps they should heed statistician Andrew Gelman’s advice “to retire use of the term ‘religion’ to mean ‘uncritical belief in something I disagree with.’” Right on! I mean, how often have you been chided for your “belief” in “free-market fundamentalism”?
[Introduction to The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets ] As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an Austrian economist. Well, not quite, but I was exposed to Austrian economics early on. I grew up in a fairly normal middle-class household, with parents who were New Deal Democrats. In high school, a
“Entrepreneurship, in the Misesian sense, is the act of bearing uncertainty.” Entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing fields within economics, management, finance, and even law. It’s also becoming a popular subject at colleges and universities. Entrepreneurship courses, programs, and activities are springing up not only in business
The economy is now a networked economy. “Information goods” are becoming more important than traditional goods. Online businesses are a more substantial driving force than brick-and-mortar establishments. Some people even say that in this networked world centralized managerial hierarchies are obsolete; in the future, they will be replaced by
Thanks to Henry Manne for passing along this fascinating analysis by Gerard N. Magliocca of the Roosevelt Administration’s attempt to outlaw private payments in gold. This Article presents a case study of how constitutional actors respond when the rule of law and necessity are sharply at odds. In 1935, the Supreme Court heard constitutional
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