Richard Vedder ranks among the most prolific Austrian economists writing and teaching today. In this interview with the Austrian Economics Newsletter , Professor Vedder discusses his education, his scholarly research, and current economic conditions. Read the interview with Richard Vedder in the Spring 1999 Austrian Economics Newsletter
Volume 3, No. 1 (Spring 2000) Persons with an Austrian perspective must evaluate the probability that an Austrian message will reduce their publication chances in mainstream journals. S ince historically the discrimination against Austrian scholarship has been high, a new Austrian academic infrastructure has emerged. We have a Dual Academy:
Volume 4, No. 1 (Spring 2001) Margo concludes what Austrian economists have surmised all along, namely that the rise in real wages during this period very closely approximated the rise in worker productivity (both grew about 1 percent a year). The major bottom-line conclusions arising from Margo’s exercise are congenial with Austrian—and, for
Volume 9, No. 3 (Fall 2006) It appears that the obvious intent of the recent paper by Professor Barnett and Professor Block (2006), “Gallaway and Vedder on Stabilization Policy,” is to reveal to the Austrian community the fraud that has been perpetrated upon it by us (hereafter G and V) in our 2000 article “The Fraud of Macro-economic
There was a watershed in the history of economic ideas in the twentieth century, particularly ideas dealing with the relationships, in the aggregate, between money wage rates, price levels, and employment. This watershed occurred not quite a third of the way through the century and was derivative from the dramatic sequence of events known as the
Vol. 10, No. 2 (YEAR) It took seven decades, but most people now accept what Ludwig von Mises explained three quarters of a century ago, namely, that centrally directed socialistic economies cannot succeed in coordinating vast numbers of interrelated decisions, in large part because of the information problem arising from non-market forms of
Volume 14, Number 4 (Winter 2011) It is suggested in Daniel Kuehn’s article in this issue (2011) that MacKenzie (2010) is wrong about Hoover’s effectiveness in pushing a high wage policy that caused high unemployment. About 80 percent of the argument is predicated on the proposition that modern empirical work by others (not the author) shows
Volume 19, Number 1 (Spring 1999) An Interview With Richard K. Vedder Richard K. Vedder is professor of economics at Ohio University and an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is the author of Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America and Poverty, Income Distribution and the Family, and Public Policy
Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio State University, teaches at the annual Mises University, an instructional seminar in the Austrian School for undergraduates and graduate students, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. In this piece, Professor Vedder identifies some structural problems in conventional university settings, and
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