Shawn Ritenour



Articles by Shawn Ritenour

The State versus Prosperity in the Less Developed Countries

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Fiscal Policy and Economic Reality

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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

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Economic Prosperity

What is the Mises Institute?

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

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Austrian Capital Theory

What is the Mises Institute?

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

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The Book That Made Me an Economist

What is the Mises Institute?

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

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Managing the Influx

Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama, 12-14 October 2023. Sponsored by Bob Tancula.
Includes awarding of the George F. Kother Free-Market Writing Award by Ben Koether. 

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Economic Prosperity

Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_38.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2023.

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Austrian Capital Theory

Capital is the starting point of economic calculation.
Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_13.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.

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The Division of Labor and Social Order

"The free market and the division of labor does not promote hyper-atomized individuals. It creates social harmony and community."
Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_06.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2023.

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Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito

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