In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Bruce Goldberg's Why Schools Fail and finds much to like. Not surprisingly, elite progressive “experts” have ruined education just as they have ruined just about everything else.
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Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics
GROENLANDIA NECESITA URGENTEMENTE DE INVERSIÓN
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The Bureaucratization of Science Is a Feature, Not a Bug
As Murray Rothbard warned decades ago, government-sponsored science is simply an extension of the bureaucracy used by the regime to force its policies on others. This is not an accident or anomaly; it is how government works.
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A Closer Look at John C. Calhoun
When it comes to the great political economist John C. Calhoun, most people love him or hate him. In this episode, economic historian Patrick Newman joins us to take a more balanced look at Calhoun, his origins as a War Hawk and nationalist, and why he was never a true Jeffersonian.
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Announcing a Special Issue of the QJAE
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics invites submissions for a special issue commemorating the centennial of the founding of the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, founded in 1927 by Mises and directed by Hayek. Guest editors are Per Bylund and Jonathan Newman.
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La fortuna escondida de Maduro y su familia
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„Verfassungsrechtlich unhaltbar” – Anwalt Joachim Steinhöfel redet Klartext
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Keynes’s Intellectual Dishonesty and Chartalism
A. Mitchell Innes—a chartalist pioneer—wrote a pamphlet “What Is Money?” (1913) which found a credulous and ideologically sympathetic audience in J. M. Keynes.
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Dirk Müller:Grönland, Piraten, Rohstoffe: Der Kampf um die letzte Beute hat begonnen!
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Dr. Peter Klein on International Law and “Might Makes Right”
Bob talks with Dr. Peter Klein about the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela and the social-media backlash against “international law,” using it as a springboard to clarify what law is, how it can exist without a world government, and why Austrians care about polycentric legal orders.
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Defense Services on the Free Market
"A truly free market is totally incompatible with the existence of a State, an institution that presumes to 'defend' person and property by itself subsisting on the unilateral coercion against private property known as taxation."
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Bait-and-Switch: Victims of the LA Wildfires Find That Local Government Wants Them Gone
People who lost their homes last year in the LA wildfires are finding government roadblocks to rebuilding, due to systems put in place by progressives. And nothing will change.
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Gold price hits record $4,641 as uncertainty persists
"Gold, which does not yield interest, typically performs well in periods of low interest rates and heightened uncertainty."
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The United States v. Jerome Powell
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the reported probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Is this actual accountability for malfeasance, or a petty battle of DC egos? At the end of the day, does the difference matter? And should Powell be encouraged that central banks around the world are …
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Why Have Homes Become So Unaffordable?
Housing prices in the US are officially off the charts. But why is that the case, as it wasn’t that long ago that homes were affordable. Like all other economic crises, this one has its roots in government policies.
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CHEVRON TIENE CUENTAS MÁS SANEADAS QUE COLOMBIA
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Why We Need the Gold Standard
Rothbard aimed at something substantially more radical than Mises. Murray wanted a complete free market in money, with no government involvement whatever.
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The Myth of a Self-Financed Fed
The Fed’s cost overruns in its building renovation project supposedly are not borne by taxpayers because, as the myth goes, the Fed is “self-financing.” However, the Fed’s “earnings” come from interest payments from the government, payments made by...taxpayers.
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 3.6 billion francs compared to the previous week
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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SNB Brings Back Zero Percent Interest Rates
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Hold-up sur l’eau potable (2/2) : la supercherie de « l’hydrogène vert ». Par Vincent Held
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