Capital and Interest Theory

Fetter's neglected work is the source of some of the greatest insights in Austrian economics, and deeply influenced Mises, Rothbard, and others.

I have lived in Auburn, Alabama, for more than three decades and have never seen a Super Sized Construction Crane. Last week, two were erected in the middle of town.

Mark Thornton is interviewed on the RT program, "Boom Bust". He discusses malinvestments stimulated by artificially lowered interest rates.

The world waits to see if next week is finally the week that the Fed announces its rate hike. Can the economy survive whatever small bump the Fed deals out? Perhaps, but that won’t change the inherent instability of our current monetary regime.

Thomas Piketty is wrong. Markets do not concentrate wealth. They work to diffuse wealth and limit the power of any single enterprise. Meanwhile, many lose their fortunes as quickly as they gain them.

This paper argues that it may be misleading to search for a direct causal effect of interest rates on the length of production because another, related factor affects it more directly. We name this factor intertemporal labor intensity...

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2015.

Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist. Recorded via Skype at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2015.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2015.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2015.