Shawn Ritenour

Articles

06/30/2024 The Misesian Shawn Ritenour

In Ludwig von Mises’s intellectual testament, Memoirs, he discusses his life and work in Europe prior to 1940. In that book he reveals that he first read Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics around...

A BCT is not ABCT: A Rejoinder to Brian Simpson

07/11/2018 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Shawn Ritenour

Brian Simpson (2017) in responding to my lengthy review of his two volume Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle, provides a welcome opportunity to identify the main distinctions between Simpson’s...

What’s the “Social Cost of Carbon?”

03/14/2018 Mises Wire Shawn Ritenour

When President Barack Obama wanted to curtail carbon dioxide emissions, he instructed his economic advisors to construct a way to calculate the emissions’ effect on society. The metric thus adopted by...

Publications

The Mises Reader Unabridged

12/22/2016 Shawn Ritenour

The Mises Reader can be found here. From the Introduction by Shawn Ritenour ... During my time in college, while I was still working through Human Action, I sought out other more accessible books by Mises. This was years before the advent of the

The Mises Reader

12/20/2016 Shawn Ritenour

Shawn Ritenour and Tom Woods discuss The Mises Reader here . The Mises Reader Unabridged edition can be found here. From the Introduction by Shawn Ritenour ... During my time in college, while I was still working through Human Action, I sought out

Media

The State versus Prosperity in the Less Developed Countries

10/17/2024 Shawn Ritenour

Sponsored by Dan Johnson and Randee Laskewitz.

Fiscal Policy and Economic Reality

08/01/2024 Shawn Ritenour

There is no general social benefit from government spending regardless of how it is financed.

Economic Prosperity

07/31/2024 Shawn Ritenour

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024. Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the

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