In his introductory remarks, last week, Joe Salerno articulated the strategic importance and uniqueness of the Mises Institute’s annual Austrian Economics Research Conference. If you missed the live broadcasts, those videos are available on Mises.org
Congratulations to Mises Senior Fellow Peter G. Klein for being recognized by Baylor University as an Outstanding Professor for 2017-2018. In particular, Dr. Klein was credited for his scholarship as the W. W. Caruth Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Senior Research Fellow with the Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise.
Congratulations to Demelza Hays, a 2015 Mises Research Fellow, for being named to Forbes 30 Under 30 from Deutschland/Austria/Switzerland . Ms. Hays is currently a PhD student at the University of Liechtenstein, specializing in cryptocurrency. Her analysis can be found at incrementum.li , an investment and management company guided by an
Today Jerome Powell announced another .25% increase in the Federal funds rate, bringing it to a range between 1.75% and 2%. In a corresponding move, interest paid on excess reserves by on 20 basis points, rather than 25. This is a small but significant change to Fed policy, a reaction to the Federal funds rate moving steadily towards the Fed’s
Congratulations to Mises Senior Fellow Peter Klein for being recognized by the Strategic Entrepreneurship Society with its Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Prize for his paper “ Opportunity Discovery, Entrepreneurial Action, and Economic Organization .” One of the aspects that makes this award particularly important is that it
The new issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is now available online. This collection includes an empirical study that identifies research and development as the earliest component of the capital structure, a new translation of Joseph Schumpeter reviewing Frank A. Fetter’s Principles of Economics from its original German, and a
Mises Institute Associated Scholar has been named the BB&T Professor of Economic Freedom within the Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University. Dr. Manish, a former Mises Research Fellow, has been a member of the Troy faculty since 2012. His research focuses on Austrian economics, macroeconomic theory and development economics, and
With your support, the Mises Institute can send the students home with a stack of Austrian classics such as America’s Great Depression and Where Keynes Went Wrong . After the week has destroyed every preconceived, state curriculum notion of how the world works, Mises U grads have another month before returning to their college classes. Fresh from
Today, Chris Calton kicked-off the third season of his Historical Controversies podcast, which will recount the controversial history of the American Civil War. The complete series (including Seasons 1 and 2) is available on iTunes , YouTube , Soundcloud , Google Play , Stitcher , Mises.org , and via RSS feed . If you enjoy the podcast, please
Congratulations to Mises Scholar Timothy Terrell for being named the T.B. Stackhouse Professor of Economics at Wofford College. As Wofford notes , “The T.B. Stackhouse Endowed Professorship of Economics was established in 1949 by the Wofford Board of Trustees in memory of Stackhouse, who graduated from Wofford in 1880 and resided in Columbia,
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