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  Memorizing a great Austrian scholar after 100 years.     “The value of goods is derived from the value of wants.” Friedrich von Wieser   TAKE AWAY Friedrich von Wieser taught at the universities of Vienna and Prague and succeeded Carl Menger at the University of Vienna in 1903. Together with his brother-in-law Eugen […]

The following series of articles presents the Austrian School of economics, 1000 words at a time. Nine economists. Twenty-seven articles. One coherent tradition that the establishment has been trying to ignore for 150 years. They were right. Article 3/27 Bohm-Bawerk connects time preference and interest rates. Vienna. 1904. The Austrian army wants more money. The […]

  For decades, private equity (PE) has been lauded as a superior form of capitalism, a bastion of entrepreneurial vigor amid sclerotic public corporations. The value proposition − generate high returns by transforming companies through operational improvements, strategic growth and financial optimization, rather than relying on market trends − was, and remains, intuitively powerful. After […]

  by Tom Bugdalle and Moritz Pfeifer, Institute for Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Leipzig We revisit the euro’s promise of convergence through a new Divergence Monitor tracking business and financial cycle synchronization since the 1980s. Business cycles became more aligned after 1999, but financial cycles stayed volatile and split into persistent core–periphery […]

The following series of articles presents the Austrian School of economics, 1000 words at a time. Nine economists. Twenty-seven articles. One coherent tradition that the establishment has been trying to ignore for 150 years. They were right. Article 2/27 Vienna. 1884. Carl Menger opens the review and reads it slowly. Gustav von Schmoller — the […]