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  France once took great pride in its position in Africa and its close ties with African countries, especially those in the francophone world. Yet over the past decade, those relationships have steadily deteriorated. The decline accelerated shortly after French President Emmanuel Macron took office in 2017. Remarks he made about African demographics and family […]

  A brief outline for the XX. Gottfried von Haberler Conference Austrian Economics at Work   “Nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist – and I am even tempted to add that the economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger.”   […]

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. Human Action, the most ambitious work in the history of economics. Article 7/27 Geneva. 1940. Ludwig von Mises hands […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump, who lead the world’s two largest economies and most powerful militaries, are meeting this week in Beijing. Discussions focus on trade, Taiwan and other global issues, including the situation in Iran. The old rules-based world order has been eroding for some time. In the past, this system […]

  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 6/27 Vienna. 1919. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has just collapsed. The war has been lost. The old order […]