Institutional Investor is running an excerpt from Mark Spitznagel’s excellent book The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World (Wiley, 2013). Ron Paul wrote the foreword, and I provided this dust-jacked blurb: Mark Spitznagel has done a remarkable job summarizing, synthesizing, and extending the great Austrian tradition, and
Mises Scholar Paul Cantor’s The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture is reviewed in The Independent Review: Against the cultural elite and their promotion of patrician—and mostly European—standards for the arts, Cantor maintains that the marketplace enables creative and experimental forms of expression that aren’t so different from earlier aesthetic
Mises Institute Associated Scholar Paul Gottfried writes today in The American Conservative: Although the president should never have expressed his intention to intervene militarily if Assad employed chemical weapons, and although he may now be losing additional credibility by appearing to waver, I am delighted that the neoconservative foreign
Mises University, which accepts only one in three applicants, welcomed an extremely talented group of 150 graduate and undergraduate students this year who had the opportunity to learn from some of the finest scholars of the Austrian school in the world, including more than one best-selling author. (Thanks to our donors, there is no charge for
David Theroux has penned a lovely tribute to Bob Higgs , who recently stepped down as founding editor of the very fine Independent Review. Aside from being a great scholar, writer, and speaker, Bob is a terrific editor -- academics are not known for their sparking prose, and Bob has a knack for molding even the most pedantic, turgid paragraphs
Readers interested in the economics literature on management, the firm, and entrepreneurship, will likely be interested in Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment by Nicolai J. Foss and Peter Klein. The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal has recently posted a scholarly review of the book. According the journal, Foss and Klein’s
Senior Fellow Thomas Woods will speak on nullification in Wisconsin on September 21. Dr. Woods is notable for his book Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century , and for his Mises Academy course on the topic. Here is Woods providing an in-depth interview on nullification: And here is Woods’s 2010 talk on nullification in
Coming next week at Mises Academy, Mark Thornton will be teaching a course on Bubbles, Booms, and Busts . Daniel J. Sanchez interviews Dr. Thornton on the class and the nature of booms, busts, and the business
This is an expanded version of today’s Mises Daily article with additional analysis and more references to scholarly articles: More Evidence That Krugman Is Wrong About Hayek and Mises Paul Krugman has recently been critical of Friedman (and Phelps), the Phillips Curve, and the Natural Unemployment Rate (NUR) theory (“ Milton Friedman, Unperson
One doesn’t have to be a strict methodological individualist to appreciate that collectives don’t think, act, and choose. Yet one of the standard tropes of financial journalism is the idea that the stock market, like your broker or your Aunt Sally, “reacts” to this or that bit of economic news. “Stocks Soar on Summers Withdrawal,” screams this
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