H.A. Scott Trask

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Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774–2004

02/12/2022 Mises Daily H.A. Scott Trask

So many to choose from but Scott Trask picks ten of the most glaring economic errors that have bespotted the history of American economic policy.

What Brought on the French Revolution?

02/04/2022 Mises Daily H.A. Scott Trask

Bad economics and an overextended empire contributed to creating conditions that led to disaster, writes H.A. Scott Trask.

Inflation and the French Revolution: The Story of a Monetary Catastrophe

11/23/2020 Mises Daily H.A. Scott Trask

Monetary inflation, writes Scott Trask, helped bring on the Terror and set French progress back a generation.

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