Michael V. Szpindor Watson

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Michael Watson: What is Outside of Economics?

03/30/2018 Michael V. Szpindor Watson Jeff Deist

Jeff Deist and Michael Watson discuss the reconciliation of ethical worldviews with value-free economics.

Did Debt Exist Before Money? It Doesn’t Matter

07/25/2016 Mises Wire Michael V. Szpindor Watson

Did credit precede money? Maybe. Does it matter? Nope. One hundred years ago A. Mitchell Innes rejected the standard story on the origins of money, whereby money spontaneously emerged as barter became...

Mueller and Mises: Integrating the Gift and “Final Distribution” within Praxeology

08/25/2015 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Michael V. Szpindor Watson

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 18, no. 2 (Summer 2015) Symposium: Is There A Missing Element in Economics? ABSTRACT: John Mueller claims that Austrian economics does not have the tools to...

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