Austrian economics

  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 […]

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 […]

  How do you get from a distorted economy to a free market without the transition destroying the reform itself? The recent public clash between President Javier Milei and businessmen such as Paolo Rocca over a pipeline contract exposes a deeper question that every market-oriented government must eventually confront: How do you actually get from […]

Welcome to this groundbreaking series of Articles, where you will learn about 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 a hundred and fifty years. They were right.  Article 1/27 Vienna. Spring, 1866. A young journalist sits […]