Other Schools of Thought

In socialist countries of old, it was easy to find cookies and candies in state-owned stores while fresh meat and bread was rare, writes Jim Fedako

Interviewed by host Redmond Weissenberger, Mark Thornton discusses markets, Keynes, Keynesians, and general economic craziness.

Easy money policy hurts most people, particularly workers and savers, and redistributes their wealth to the ruling elites.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 385-412 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Enemies of laissez faire wish to saddle it with much unsavory baggage, writes Frank Chodorov.

One of Carl Menger’s contributions was his primacy of the consumer in determining value and price, not only in the marketplace but in all economic activity.

Enemies of laissez faire wish to saddle it with much unsavory baggage.

Stephen Halbrook’s new book on gun control in Nazi Germany details the step-by-step process of disarming the German population.

Thomas Piketty’s theoretical case is weak, but his supporters say, “look at all this data. The data, however, is often iffy at best and outlandish at worst.  
 

Peter Klein talks about inequality—how people are different, what determines income and wealth on the free market, why elites are so excited about Thomas Piketty's new book on capital, and how attempts to reduce aggregate inequality through progressive taxation are fraught with difficulty.