Our guest on Mises Weekends is Professor Per Bylund, a man who studies entrepreneurship for a living. Why is the role of the entrepreneur — the individual who risks capital, time, and energy to build a business — almost completely disregarded by most economists? Does the Austrian focus on individual human action explain why business schools are far more willing to embrace Austrian principles? Can real-world entrepreneurs improve their business skills in traditional university settings, or are much-hyped campus incubators a waste of time? Why do progressives dismiss entrepreneurs with their “You didn’t build that” mentality? And how do socialist policies in places like Dr. Bylund’s native Sweden kill the spirit that makes us rich? Join Jeff and Per for an insightful discussion of “Who Built That?”
And in case you missed any of them, here are the articles featured this week on the Mises Wire:
- Fed Financial Statements: $6 Billion Drop in Fed Remittances by C.Jay Engel
- How the Global Drug War Pushed Down Heroin Prices by Chris Calton
- Ryancare is Failing — What Should Happen Next? by Tho Bishop
- Are Central Banks Worthy of Trust? by C.Jay Engel
- Celebrating Murray! by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
- For Keynesians and Austrians, “Uncertainty” Means Two Different Things by G. P. Manish and Felicia Cowley
- Money Supply Growth Falls to 17-month Low in February by Ryan McMaken
- Is the Size of the Fed’s Balance Sheet More Important than the Target Rate? by C.Jay Engel
- Don’t Confuse Immigration with Naturalization by Ryan McMaken
- How the Government Ruined US Healthcare — and What Can Be Done by Alice Salles
- Donald Trump’s Whig Is Showing by Christopher P. Casey
- Understanding Money Creation and the Trade Balance by Frank Shostak
- The G-20 Was Never Serious About Free Trade by Tho Bishop
- Obamacare Repeal or Obamacare 2.0? by Ron Paul
- The Fed’s Half-Hearted Attempt at Monetary Tightening by Thorsten Polleit
- Rebuilding the Way We Learn Economics by Jeff Deist
- Rockefeller, Morgan, and War by Murray N. Rothbard
- The Stench Inside The Fed by Doug French
- Trump Should Follow Putin on Military Spending by Tho Bishop
- America Is Hardly a Bastion of Free Trade by Andrew N. Smith
