Josef Šíma

Articles

A Laissez-Faire Fable of the Czech Republic

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Josef Šíma Dan Stastny

It is the task of this paper to describe what can happen to “a good cause” when it is “ineptly defended,” and to address the problem of the relationship between a verbal free-market support and...

From the Bosom of Communism to the Central Control of EU Planners

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Josef Šíma

Since the end of the Second World War, the issue of European integration has taken on ever-greater economic and political importance. Upon communism’s collapse in Eastern and Central Europe, a special...

Praxeology as Law & Economics

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Josef Šíma

The law & economics movement has become one of the most dynamic schools within economics. Its origin is often dated back to the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, but insights about the...

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The Quest for a Property-Based, Misesian Economics

03/29/2006 Josef Šíma

Josef Sima presents the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture: The Quest for a Property-Based, Misesian Economic. From the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Austrian Economists in the Age of European Political Centralization

10/14/2011 Josef Šíma

Presented in Vienna, Austria, on 20 September 2011. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.