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Austrian Economics: A Primer
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Author: Eamonn F. Butler
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Here, Butler has written a very competent overview of Mises’s works and thoughts, with a focus on his understanding of the workings of markets (so, for example, there is less focus on theory than we find in The Essential von Mises). Economists shape our everyday lives, yet many people find their thinking unsettling. Their talk of perfect
Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation
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Author: Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler
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Category: Big Government, World History
By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting the market process through legislation. It always uses despotic measures to yield socially catastrophic
Wage and Price Controls in the Ancient World
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Author: Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler
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Category: Interventionism, Other Schools of Thought, Big Government, World History
Introduction In the Land of the Nile Sumeria Babylon The Other Side Of The World Ancient India Ancient Greece Notes [This article is excerpted from the book Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation .]   From the earliest times, from the very inception of organized government, rulers and their officials have attempted,
Price Fixing in Ancient Rome
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Author: Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler
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Category: Interventionism, Booms and Busts, Free Markets, Global Economy, World History
[This article is excerpted from the book Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation , chapter 2: “The Roman Republic and Empire.”] As might be expected, the Roman Republic was not to be spared a good many ventures into control of the economy by the government. One of the most famous of the Republican statutes was the
Postwar Rent Controls
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Author: Robert L. Scheuttinger Eamonn F. Butler
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Category: Interventionism, Free Markets, U.S. History
[ Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation (1978)] The rent that a landlord charges for his accommodation is merely an instance of a price for a commodity, like all other prices for all other commodities. And like all other prices and all other commodities, rents have been a prime target for government restrictions.