Austrian School

  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 […]

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 5/27   Vienna. March 1938. The Gestapo enter Ludwig von Mises’s apartment the day German forces march into […]

  Zur 127. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages am 8. Mai   “Before we explain why people commit mistakes, we must first explain why they should ever be right.” F.A. von Hayek I Weit mehr als die anderen sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen scheint insbesondere die Nationalökonomie der periodischen Wiederholung längst widerlegter Thesen und den modischen Begriffen des jeweils herrschenden […]

  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. Böhm-Bawerk vs. Hilferding. Article 4/27 Vienna. 1905. Rudolf Hilferding takes his seat in Böhm-Bawerk’s seminar at the University […]