Gene Callahan

Articles

05/04/2018 Mises Wire Gene Callahan

[ Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb] The multitalented writer, businessman, and academic Nassim Nicholas Taleb hates being called an “intellectual,” so let’s...

Does Austrian Business Cycle Theory Help Explain the Dot-Com Boom and Bust?

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Gene Callahan

Volume 6, No. 2 (Summer 2003) Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT ), we contend, is essential to understanding the recent boom and bust cycle in the American (and, to a great extent, the global)...

What is an Externality?

08/01/2001 Free Market Gene Callahan

The Free Market 19, no. 8 (August 2001) British economist A.C. Pigou was instrumental in developing the theory of externalities. The theory examines cases where some of the costs or benefits of...

Publications

Economics for Real People

01/01/2002 Gene Callahan

The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn’t about government planning or

Media

Financial Economics for Real People

03/01/2004 Gene Callahan

Boom, Bust, and the Future (26:23) January 18-19, 2002

The Road to Liberty

03/01/2004 Gene Callahan

Gene Callahan presents the Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.

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