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Eamonn Butler’s Primer on Entrepreneurship and Its Social Good

By / August 12, 2021

Entrepreneurship is the great force for social good– in truth, the best force for good in the history of civilization. It’s the system of continuously enhancing the lives of others so we can enhance our own lives. Through entrepreneurship, we can accomplish greater and higher levels of neighborhood, partnership and societal advance. Eamonn Butler, Co-Founder […]

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The Great Keynesian Coup of August 1971: Fifty Years Later

By / August 11, 2021

On August 15, 1971, the last remains of what had been a magnificent monetary system died a terrible death, and the American academic, political, business, and media elites led the cheers. The Dow Jones Average jumped by more than 32 points the next day. A de facto national default was spun as a great liberation […]

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Old and New Development Economics: A Reassessment of Objectives

By / August 10, 2021

ABSTRACT:  The “new development economics” (also called behavioral development economics) consists of microeconomic experimentation based on behavioral economics and randomized controlled trials. This approach would illuminate the close relationships between preferences, culture, and institutions and point to new political opportunities. This paper describes and analyzes the new development economics’s main components and argues that the […]

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An Orthodox Handle Scholasticism

By / August 6, 2021

The most unique mark of the new scholastic faith, however, was its approach. Referred to as scholasticism, this method to comprehending departed substantially from the theology of the old Papal charters were the prerequisites for the universities, and fantastic examples were to be discovered in Bologna, Paris, and Oxford. Unlike the stereotype where the Church […]

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Government “Stimulus” Keeps Having a Diminishing Effect

By / August 5, 2021

The United States economy recovered at a 6.5 percent annualized rate in the 2nd quarter of 2021, and gross domestic product (GDP) is now above the prepandemic level. This ought to be considered as good news till we put it in the context of the biggest fiscal and financial stimulus in recent history. With the […]

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Our Business Oligarchy and the Road to National Socialism

By / August 3, 2021

It prevailed on the Left to intimate that George W. Bush was like Hitler, a remark that would drive the National Review crowd through the roofing however which I didn’t discover completely outrageous. Bush’s primary technique of governance was to stimulate worry of foreign enemies and initiate a sort of nationalist hysteria about the need […]

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The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited

By / August 2, 2021

The Review of Austrian Economics 5, no. 2 1991 At the root of the dazzling revolutionary implosion and collapse of socialism and central planning in the “socialist bloc” is what everyone concedes to be a disastrous economic failure. The peoples and the intellectuals of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are crying out not only for […]

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Seeds of Modernity?

By / July 30, 2021

The Papal Reformation had actually altered forever the character of the West. The Age of Department: Christendom from the Great Schism to the Protestant Reformation, by John Strickland This reformation happened had the military may); soldiers set in motion to extend the reach of the Latin Church; universities established; and, inquisitions were held. A mixed […]

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Mises University 2022

By / July 29, 2021

Austrian Economics Rooted in the custom of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, along with Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek, the Austrian school uses a rigorous and sensible method to economics that gives free markets their due and takes complete account of the truth of human option. More than a field within economics, the Austrian […]

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