Archive for Mises
My Talk at the Heartland Institute
The sound was messed up (for the streaming, not the audience) in the beginning, so you miss my jokes. This is why you should always come hear me live. Anyway, I summarize some of Mises’ contributions, and then there’s a lengthy Q&A.
Read moreMurphy Twin Spin
Sorry for the sparse blogging, I’ve been traveling like a presidential candidate lately. Here are two things to tide you over: ==> A link to all of the talks at Hillsdale College’s recent seminar series on Mises & Hayek. I get into some issues in my talk (which focuses on the book Human Action) that […]
Read moreMises Circle in Fort Worth
I have some comp’d tickets to the Mises Circle event in Fort Worth on Nov. 5. Shoot me an email if you want to go and bring a guest or two.
Read moreMonetary Calculation
This is not the same old, same old. I tried to motivate Mises’ insights on economic calculation with new angles. An excerpt: [When I worked for a volunteer group after the Haitian earthquake], we all had to choose which team we would join during a given block of time, but there were rules so that […]
Read moreCombining the Wisdom of Mises and Yogi Berra
In my latest FEE article on profit. The money excerpt: Now here’s the important element: notice that although the high market price of gold keeps it from being wasted in over-the-top apartment decoration, there are lines of production that can profitably use gold. For example, jewelers who sell necklaces can do a similar calculation and […]
Read moreMises, 134 Years Young
From my hagiographical piece at the American Thinker: One of Mises’s earliest achievements was to bridge the two fields we now call microeconomics and macroeconomics.Originally, the classical economists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had embraced variants of a labor theory of value in their teachings. Then, during the so-called Marginal Revolution of the 1870s, […]
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