The largest urban mass-transit systems across the US are entering an all too familiar point in their long history: another looming financial disaster caused by financial mismanagement and the...
Georg Grassmueck
Georg Grassmueck is an Associate Professor of Business at Lycoming College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. He received his BS in International Business and his MBA with a concentration in Finance from Sacred Heart University and his PhD in Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics from Pennsylvania State University. At Lycoming College, he teaches a variety of finance classes ranging from Fundamentals of Financial Management to Investment Theory and Corporate Finance. He also teaches a class on Business and Society and Reading in Entrepreneurship, focusing on an Austrian approach to the subject. He is actively involved in the First Year Seminar series exploring with students an Austrian inspired laissez-faire approach to everyday problems. His current research focuses on how the concept of the entrepreneur can be applied to financial markets. He took his first Austrian Economics class, business cycle theory, while studying economics and business in his country of birth, Austria.
Latest work
Virtue-signaling politicians in New Jersey have banned single-use plastic bags, claiming to "help the environment." They need to read Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson instead.
New Jersey became one of the latest states in 2022 to ban single-use bags. In 2014, California became the first state to ban of use plastic bags. Since then, several states have followed including New...
