Austrian Economics Overview

Four hundred freedom-minded intellectuals gathered at the most recent meeting in Santiago, Jon Basil Utley reports. 

Back in Print: A book by Murray N. Rothbard that shaped a generation of intellectuals and laid the groundwork for a revolt against centralized social and economic management.

New approaches to cost accounting show market forces impacting upon the quality of economic calculation itself. New in the QJAE.

Interviewed at the Rothbard Graduate Seminar, the famed macroeconomist comments on his new book and the state of liberty in France.

Several new papers on Mises exhibit fundamental misunderstandings of key points of Mises's  epistemology, starting with a paper by experimental economist Vernon Smith.

Mises.org is developing, week by week, particularly in its library resources for students and scholars.

In 1940, Mises watched the rise of the total state and the destruction of Europe, and believed he had been "the historian of decline." But the designation doesn't apply to today's Misesians.

There are two ways to read Mises's great treatise. Most readers will, I fear, find the book too much to attempt to grasp systematically. Not everyone feels like reading a nine-hundred-page book straight through.

Richard Posner, often said to have free-market sympathies, will mediate the Microsoft case. But he can't be trusted to defend property rights, says Walter Block.
 

Ralph Raico, historian of liberty, is the winner of the annual award, to be presented January 28-29, 2000.