Austrian School of Economics

Israel Kirzner on the Individual and the Market

Kirzner defines economics as the reconciliation of conflicting ends given the existence of inescapable scarcity (1960)

Leonard Read on Ludwig von Mises as the economic dictator of the U.S. (1971)

Ludwig Lachmann and the free market as a leveling process in the distribution of wealth (1956)

Ludwig von Mises argues that monopolies are the direct result of government intervention and not the product of any inherent tendency within the capitalist system (1949)

Ludwig von Mises argues that sound money is an instrument for the protection of civil liberties and a means of limiting government power (1912)

Ludwig von Mises argues that the division of labor and human cooperation are the two sides of the same coin and are not antagonistic to each other (1949)

Ludwig von Mises identifies the source of the disruption of the world monetary order as the failed policies of governments and their central banks (1934)

Ludwig von Mises laments the passing of the Age of Limited Warfare and the coming of Mass Destruction in the Age of Statism and Conquest (1949)

Ludwig von Mises lays out five fundamental truths of monetary expansion (1949)

Ludwig von Mises on the impossibility of rational economic planning under Socialism (1922)

Ludwig von Mises shows the inevitability of economic slumps after a period of credit expansion (1951)

Mises and the Emergence of Etatism in Germany (1944)

Mises on “interventionism” as a third way between the free market and socialism (1930)

Mises on classical liberalism and the gold standard (1928)

Mises on cosmopolitan cooperation and peace (1927)

Mises on how price controls lead to socialism (1944)

Mises on how the “boon” of a tariff privilege is soon dissipated (1949)

Mises on human action, football, and predicting the future (1966)

Mises on liberalism and the battle of ideas (1927)

Mises on the consumer as the “captain” of the economic ship (1944)

Mises on the gold standard as the symbol of international peace and prosperity (1949)

Mises on the interconnection between economic and political freedom (1949)

Mises on the public sector as “tax eaters” who “feast” on the assets of the ordinary tax payer (1953)

Mises on the State Theory of Money (1912)

Mises on the worship of the state or statolatry (1944)

Mises on wealth creation and stopping the spirit of predatory militarism (1949)

Mises states that it is the division of labor which makes man truly “social” or “communal” (1922)

The 11th Day of Christmas: Mises on the gold standard and peace on earth (1934)