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..
Editorial for Symposium: Toward a Pedagogy of Austrian Macroeconomics
Our hope in publishing this symposium is to assist other instructors in teaching Austrian macroeconomics at the intermediate level and to inspire those who are inclined and equipped to contribute publications
Review of The Case for Gold edited by William Rees-Mogg
This three-volume collection, edited by William Rees-Mogg and published in 2002 by Pickering and Chatto presents, in more than 949 pages, essays and excerpts from books written by 19 of the most remarkable
Cantor’s Diagonal Argument: An Extension to the Socialist Calculation Debate
The standard view of the socialist calculation debate is that Mises and Hayek at best demonstrated the practical impossibility of socialist economy,
Monopoly Prices
The substitution of a monopoly price for a competitive price is tantamount to a serious restriction of the working of the most characteristic principle of the free enterprise system, i.e., of the sovereignty of the consumers.
Monetary Disequilibrium Theory and Business Cycles: An Austrian Critique
Monetary disequilibrium theory has some common ground with Austrian economics, but there is substantial disagreement regarding the analysis of business cycles.
Review of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938 by Butler Shaffer
Butler Shaffer's well-written monograph, In Restraint of Trade, describes in extensive detail why and how most businessmen pleaded for the government to tame them between the end of World War I and the eve of World War II.
Review of War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900 , by John V. C. Nye, ed.
In terms of the domestic economy, the established history of English liberation and French stagnations still holds, but War, Wine, and Taxes:
Binary Economics: Paradigm Shift or Cluster of Errors?
Binary economics is a theory of economic growth that places emphasis upon the distribution of capital, rather than the quantity of capital or the productivity of labor.
Money or Money Substitutes?: Implications of Selgin’s Small Change Challenge
Selgin (2009) questions the practicality of 100 percent reserve requirements applied to small change. He interprets the private coinage of small change in 18th century England as embodying fiduciary media
Credit Creation or Financial Intermediation?: Fractional-Reserve Banking in a Growing Economy
It is important that Austrians continue in their endeavor to convince colleagues, policymakers, and the public about the instabilities inherent to a fractional-reserve system.
Rejoinder to Hoppe on Indifference
he author provides a commentary. Despite Hoppe’s more elegant way of describing choice, it still remains a logical contradiction to oppose indifference and embrace interchangeable commodity units.
Review of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, by David A. Stockman
The Great Transformation is a Human Action-sized treatise about how the Fed over the past several decades has generated economic instability in far more ways than even the Austrian business cycle
Garrisonian Macroeconomics
Garrison has a vivid sense for the necessity of adequate pedagogy to communicate Austrian ideas about the working of the economy, and he is very conscious of the power of symbols.
Ownership and Competitive Dynamics
Changes in ownership titles are essential to understanding competitive dynamics and, more broadly, the market process. There is ample evidence that a crucial source of productivity growth,
The Quality of Money
Much has been written about the quantity of money and its effects on money’s purchasing power. However, changes in the quality of money have been widely neglected.
Review ofLiberty and Hard Cases by Tibor Machan
Governments always attempt to exploit a crisis, and disasters provide a natural (no pun intended) excuse for them to do so. Their proffered “solutions” to problems(which they often create) invariably worsen those problems.
Gold Bonds and Silver Agitation
During the late nineteenth century, when silver agitation threatened the gold standard in the United States, gold bonds offered investors some protection from the uncertainties concerning the monetary standard in the United States.
A Note on Rothbardian Decision-Making Rents
In his Man, Economy, and State, Murray Rothbard introduces the catallactic function of decision-making owner, and the correspondent income of decision-making ability rent.
Review of Millennium Doom. Fallacies about the End of Work, by Mauricio Rojas
In this new offering, Rojas tends to downplay the existence of any net capital movements and to argue that, if such net capital movements existed at all, they operate only in favor of the capitalist West.