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Booms, Busts, and Statistics: What the Mainstream Gets Wrong

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"Economics is about how we behave, which comes from our personal valuation, in and relative to the physical world."

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How to Teach Austrian Economics in the Current Political Atmosphere

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Blog07/22/2022

As the US political landscape shifts rapidly and college economics departments become increasingly hostile, the way we teach free-market economics will change.

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Economic Theory Begins with Human Action, Not Data Sets

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Blog04/25/2022

Austrian economics begins with logical deductions made from what we know about human action, not data sets that are subject to change.

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Quantitative Methods Are Incomplete When Used for Economic Analysis

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Blog03/09/2022

Modern economics claims that quantitative methods are central to understanding economic analysis. Mises demonstrated why this belief is untrue.

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Economic Knowledge Is Qualitative, Not Quantitative

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Blog02/23/2022

Mainstream academic economists believe that we advance economics by "testing" theories. Austrian economists believe economics is about understanding human action and does not have to be subjected to constant tests.

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Why Austrians Stress Ordinal Utility

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Blog02/03/2022

Sometimes people—even other economists—are incredulous that the Austrians deny the possibility of interpersonal utility comparisons.

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Why Everyone Should Read These Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises

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Blog09/27/2021

The public must come to a fuller understanding that without private property there is no liberty; that there is no safe middle of the road; and that we citizens are engaged in a constant struggle with government over how much of our own property, and of the fruits of our own labor, we will be...

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Study Guide to the Jordan Peterson – Robert Murphy Podcast

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Blog09/02/2021

Robert Murphy's interview with Jordan Peterson featured a fast and exciting conversation with lots of references to books, articles, and other Austrian scholarship. This study guide offers citations and explanations for that may have gone by too quickly for the audience.

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Hoppe's The Great Fiction, Expanded Second Edition—Now Available

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Blog03/16/2021

The second edition of The Great Fiction will be welcomed by all readers interested in the theoretical foundations of a free society.

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