In this issue, papers and proceedings of the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference.
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Desocialization of Enterprises: Empowering Venezuelans
How can state enterprises in Venezuela be desocialized? What would a privatization law look like for Venezuela? The authors describe a proposal to move Venezuela toward free markets.
Ludwig von Mises, Sociology, and Metatheory
Can sociology be integrated into Mises's epistemological distinction between theory and history? What can sociology accomplish as a historical discipline?
Family Formation, Fertility, and Failure: A Literature Review on Price Increases and Their Impact on the Family Institution
Inflation not only debases currency, but damages the family institution, eroding the quantity and quality of marriages while creating distortions in the decision-making processes of those hoping to establish families.
Are Structural Fluctuations Natural or Policy-Induced? Analyzing Mises’s and Schumpeter’s Contributions to Business Cycle Theory
A closer look at differences between Mises's and Schumpeter's economic theories suggests that their fundamental divergences have their origin in methodological and epistemological questions.
Selected Abstracts from the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference
This is a collection of abstracts from some of the papers presented at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference held at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Keynes and the Ethics of Socialism
The previously unexplored evidence presented here confirms that Keynes advocated a consistent form of non-Marxist socialism from no later than 1907 until his death in 1946.
Libertarianism(s) versus Postmodernism and ‘Social Justice’ Ideology
"Woke capitalism" — referring to companies that engage in corporate activism — tells us a great deal about contemporary corporate capitalism, the political left, and the relationship between the two.
The Cost of Enlightenment
Reason, equality, separation of church and state, and science and politics freed from religious dogma have characterized the Enlightenment. Have these ideas given us freedom, or cost us freedom?
