Mario J. Rizzo

Articles

10/13/2009 Mises Daily Mario J. Rizzo

In recent years, Posner abandoned his rational-choice approach in law for what he has been calling “pragmatism.” Keynes also thought of himself as a pragmatic, nondoctrinaire person.

The Misdirection of Resources and the Current Recession

02/19/2009 Mises Daily Mario J. Rizzo

I have spent my academic career in the economic analysis of law and in the broad area of “political economy.” I am not a macroeconomist. So why have I been writing and speaking on this subject in...

Publications

Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes

11/02/1979 Mario J. Rizzo

The conceptualization of man as engaging in purposeful activity is inconceivable apart from the categories of cause and effect. Unless the means chosen can affect the ends desired in some way, there is no point at all to human action. The categories

Media

Mario Rizzo on His History with the Austrian School and the Economics of Time & Ignorance

12/23/2020 Robert P. Murphy Mario J. Rizzo

Mario Rizzo is a professor in the Department of Economics at NYU–where he was Bob’s dissertation chair. He talks about how he found the Austrian School and his own contributions to economics.

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