Biographies

Fetter is mostly neglected today, but he had a powerful influence on practically every Austrian economist in the first half of the 20th century.

Hegel, unfortunately, was not a bizarre aberrant force in European thought. He was one of many infected by Romanticism.

"He used Menger’s edifice as a framework, and then he solidified its foundations and proceeded to build an entire basilica on top of it. It was an enormous achievement."

Thanks to Mises, we now understand that the only way that socialists can solve the problem of resource allocation is by adopting capitalism.

Jonathan Newman discusses the contributions of Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993), the brilliant popularizer of sound economics.

Guido Hülsmann highlights the life and work of Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), arguably the greatest economist of all time. 

What can we can learn from the early Austrian economists about the alleged decadence of Vienna in their time?

Lucas Engelhardt explains the many contributions of an early precursor to not only the Austrian school but to the whole of economic thought.

Per Bylund explains the many contributions of Jean-Baptiste Say, a precursor to the Austrian School of economics. 

David Gordon discusses Murray Rothbard’s contributions to economic theory and their broader historical context.