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Forgive this superfluous post, but a friend just sent me this this picture from a golf shop sign in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in which the Mr. Niblick of Mashie & Niblick, looks surprisingly like Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk

[Editors Note: After days of rioting in the streets of Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron was forced to backtrack today on proposed gas taxes. While this episode demonstrated the unpopularity of trying to raise taxes in the name of fighting climate change, Mises Institute Senior Fellow Robert Murphy recently noted at IER  that this is only

The Executive Branch’s recently released Volume II of the  National Climate Assessment  (NCA) is a massive document that is being cited as yet further evidence that the U.S. government should act quickly and boldly in the fight against climate change. The  coverage in the New York  Times  was typical: “All told, the report says, climate change

In a recent column titled, “Capitalism, Socialism, and Unfreedom,” Paul Krugman lambasted libertarians for equating “freedom” with minimal government. He ridiculed the recently updated Cato index that ranks the 50 U.S. states according to their “freedom” defined in this fashion. Because he lives in New York state—which came in dead last in the

President Donald Trump sparked controversy — as is his wont — when he recently told CNBC that he was “not thrilled” with the Federal Reserve’s announced hikes in short-term interest rates, which he claimed would hinder the economic expansion for which his administration had worked so hard. “I’m letting them [the Fed] do what they feel is best,” he

George Selgin has a 3-part series ( I ,  II , and  III ) at Alt-M taking people (like me) to task for claiming that fractional-reserve banking per se causes the boom-bust cycle as described by Mises/Hayek. To be clear, George is putting aside the issue of whether FRB is fraud, and is just focusing on the economics. (He thinks the people claiming

I am a long-time critic of NYT columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. In addition to my podcast “Contra Krugman” (co-hosted with Tom Woods), over the years I’ve also written dozens of online articles pushing back against our era’s most influential disciple of Keynes. Some of my favorite essays are now available in my new book, Contra Krugman:

We Austrian economists frequently cross swords with our Keynesian foes on all manner of economic analysis and government policy recommendations. Yet the standard Austrian analysis of the business cycle is also sharply at odds with that of the “Market Monetarists,” a new school of thought coming out of the Chicago school tradition and now gaining

In  my previous IER post , I pointed out the huge contradiction in the major media treatment of climate change policy. The same day William Nordhaus shared the Nobel Prize in economics, the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report. The media lauded Nordhaus and his support of a carbon tax, while

In the comments attached to my article Have Anthropologists Overturned Menger? , David Graeber offered a lengthy response. Below we’ve compiled his comments into a convenient stand-alone post. I’ll respond in turn with a follow-up post.   You know serious scholars, if they are trying to refute an argument set forth in a book, actually take a look