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  Dear Friends of Freedom and Austrian Economic Thought, We are excited to invite you to contribute to the “PUBLISH WITH US” section of the European Center of Austrian Economics Foundation (ECAEF) website. ECAEF is dedicated to the advancement of the Austrian School of Economics and the principles of free markets and individual liberty. Your voice and […]

The recent G20 meeting took place in Brazil, bringing together the heads of state and government from the world’s 20 leading economies. In a pompous and undeserved manner, the final declaration – the only official outcome of these extremely expensive meetings – begins with, “We, the Leaders.” These so-called “leaders,” whether democratic, authoritarian, Marxist or […]

Book Alert: London, Palgrave-Macmillan 2024. Palgrave Studies in Austrian Economics (PSAE) Restoring Science and the Rule of Law by Michael Esfeld and Cristian Lopez (University of Lausanne)   A prosperity-bearing track Romantic historians in the nineteenth century were keen to claim that Modernity had tainted (if not perverted) centuries of pure innocence, innate God-shaped goodness, […]

  A country with a unique record of poor policies revealing the damaging effects of price controls has just demonstrated how effective their removal can be. In 2020, the Argentine Congress passed a new rent regulation, promoted by Representative Daniel Lipovetzky (Cambiemos). The “Lipovetzky Law” introduced three major features: it extended the minimum lease term from […]

  In September, Mario Draghi, formerly the Italian prime minister, head of the European Central Bank (ECB) and a prominent member of the pan-European establishment, together with his team issued a much-anticipated report on the economic state of the European Union. It highlighted the EU’s gloomy prospects without a change of course and presented a […]