Taking Rites Seriously: Neither Theocracy nor Liberal Hegemony
The Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Lou Church Foundation. Recorded at the Mises Institute on March 20, 2021. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School,
The Sinful State
Hardly anyone talks of the table of virtues and vices anymore — which includes the Seven Deadly Sins — but in reviewing them, we find that they nicely sum up the foundation of bourgeois ethics, and provide a solid moral
Debunking Piketty and the Left’s Celebrity Economists
If you were to browse the economics section of the majority of bookstores here in my home city, Dublin, you would find something of an odd phenomenon: these businesses which essentially exist because of free enterprise and voluntary exchange—i.e., because
The Long Rehabilitation of Frank Fetter
The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Steven and Cassandra Torello. Recorded at the Mises Institute on March 20, 2021. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian
One Year Later: The Police Still Won’t Come Clean on Duncan Lemp’s Death
Local politicians have pretended the Lemp killing never happened and the media let them get away with it—the same way that most of the New York media covered Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home catastrophe last year. Original Article: "One Year Later:
How the Fed’s Inflation Is Driving Stock Buybacks
An explosion in the money supply has driven many corporate managers to turn to stock buybacks as a safe alternative to holding on to depreciating cash. This means many companies are decapitalizing. Original Article: "How the Fed's Inflation Is Driving Stock
State Preemptions of Local Government Autonomy Is a Bad Thing. Even When Ron DeSantis Does It.
On March 10, 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Executive Order #2021-65. This order remits fines imposed by local governments in regard to covid-19 restrictions. While Governor DeSantis is considered somewhat controversial among wider audiences due to his handling of
Donald Devine on the Enduring Tension
Donald Devine is a legend in Washington, DC conservative circles, where he gained fame wrestling civil service bloat as head of Reagan's Office of Personnel Management. His new book The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order starts with Schumpter's
From Menger to Mises
The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Dr. Don Printz. Recorded at the Mises Institute on March 19, 2021. Includes an introduction by Peter G. Klein. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School,
Crying Wolf on (Hyper)Inflation?
[This article is part of the Understanding Money Mechanics series, by Robert P. Murphy. The series will be published as a book in 2021.] In chapter 10 we explained the connection between monetary inflation and price inflation, and warned that there is no