Harry C. Veryser

Harry Veryser has served as director of the graduate program in economics at the University of Detroit Mercy and as chairman of Walsh College’s Department of Economics and Finance. He is author of It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary—and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle.

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It Didn’t Have to Be This Way

01/11/2016 Harry C. Veryser

Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the recent economic meltdown--or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities? Mainstream economics has no adequate answers for

It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary—and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle

03/27/2013 Harry C. Veryser

Part of the Authors Forum, presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference. Recorded 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

The Austrians Were Right

02/05/2013 Mises Daily Harry C. Veryser

People everywhere are giving much more serious thought to foundational questions about the economy.

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