Marx

  …And when is it just a family feud? Robert Hall coined “freshwater” and “saltwater” in 1976 to describe a split in macroeconomics: the freshwater camp—Chicago, Minnesota, the University of Rochester—building models where markets clear quickly and government intervention mostly just gets in the way; the saltwater camp—MIT, Harvard, Berkeley—building models with sticky prices and […]

  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 […]