The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (QJAE) is a refereed journal that promotes the development and extension of Austrian economics and the analysis of contemporary issues in the mainstream of economics from an Austrian perspective..
The Limits of Numerical Probability: Frank H. Knight and Ludwig von Mises and the Frequency of Interpretation
Both Frank H. Knight and Ludwig von Mises are recognized as founders of intellectual traditions: the Chicago School and the neo-Austrian School of economics, respectively.
A Critical Note on Fractional-Reserve Free Banking
The practice of fractional-reserve banking is the main factor responsible for the emergence and development of the central bank.
Comparative Advantage and Uncertainty Bearing
The law of association as espoused by David Ricardo and generalized by Ludwig von Mises cannot directly convey what is at stake in exchanges involving specialization in uncertainty bearing.
Review of Subjectivism and Economic Analysis: Essays in Memory of Ludwig M. Lachmann. Edited by Roger Kopp and Gary Mongiovi
Though little known among the economics establishment during his lifetime, Ludwig M. Lachmann was always widely connected. The range of scholars whom he knew and with whom he communicated was truly impressive.
Rothbard on V Shaped Average and Total Cost Curves
Rothbard (1993, pp. 638–45) refuted the important economic fallacy that excess capacity is a normal consequence of profit maximizing behavior by businesses in some industries when they are in long-run equilibrium.
Review of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism is much more than a biography of the twentieth century’s great Austrian economist.
Commentary on Rashid’s “Rothbard on Money: A Critical Textual Exegesis”
There seems to be a lot less disagreement between Rothbard and Rashid than meets the latter’s eye. The biggest issue on which there is a gap separating
Fama’s Efficient Market Hypothesis and Mises’s Evenly Rotating Economy: Comparative Constructs
Mises created an artificial construct, the evenly rotating economy (ERE), from which to ascertain the source of entrepreneurial profit and loss. In particular, the ERE is characterized by two distinct elements.
The Modern Theory of Consumer Behavior: Ordinal or Cardinal?
Neoclassical utility functions are an invalid means of analyzing consumer behavior for three reasons: first, and most important, because such functions, and their attendant rankings, are cardinal, not ordinal in nature;
William Graham Sumner: Monetary Theorist
Sumner was the product of an indigenous American hard-money tradition that embraced free markets, free trade, and sound banking
Hayek and the 21st Century Boom-Bust and Recession-Recovery
Hayek’s writings on business cycle theory; the seminal work of the 1930s and 1940s and the modifications he made in the 1970s after he received the Nobel Prize,
Review of “The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law” by Randy E. Barnett
The Structure of Liberty is an important new work by one of libertarianism's most significant and thoughtful legal scholars. Its primary substantive deficiency is its over-reliance on the Hayekian knowledge paradigm
Austrian Elements of Structuralist Unemployment
Does Structuralist unemployment theory in the spirit of Edmund S. Phelps (1994) contain Austrian elements? Austrian macroeconomics concerns itself with the intertemporal capital structure and entrepreneurial expectations.
Review of From Mutual Aid to Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967, by David Beito
From Mutual Aid is not, nor does it intend to be, a comprehensive study demonstrating the superiority of private social welfare efforts over government programs.
Capital in Disequilibrium: Understanding the “Great Recession” and the Potential for Recovery
The process of reabsorbing an economy’s various unemployed resources into new or expanding enterprises (i.e., economic recovery) potentially begins in the same moment that the discovery
Review of The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism by William J. Baumol
The fundamental idea behind this book, as its title suggests, is that innovation is the driving force behind the remarkable growth miracle of capitalism.
Factor Prices under Monopoly
This paper explains how grants of monopolistic privileges to capitalists can lower labor and land factors’ prices compared to what would prevail in a free market environment.
New Keynesian Monetary Views: A Comment
The fundamental question we have to confront in the theory of monetary policy is therefore not whether money affects the real economy—yes it does, both in the short run and in the long run
Austrian Business Cycle Theories in the Reviews of the Federal Reserve System
References to the works of the economists and economic schools of thought are a relatively recent development in texts of reviews published by Federal Reserve System member banks.
Murray Rothbard Confronts Adam Smith
A noteworthy feature of Murray Rothbard's monumental history of economic thought is his vigorous denunciation of Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations.