Introduction -- A Pre-history of the Federal Reserve -- Does U.S. History Vindicate Central Banking? - Ben Bernanke, the FDR of Central Bankers -- Fed Policy Errors of the Great Depression -- The Federal Reserve: Reality Trumps Rhetoric -- A Fraudulent Legend: The Myth of the Independent Fed --...

Part I. A short introduction to the theories of the Austrian School -- Chapter 1. Emergence of Fundamental Liberalism in the Economics of the Austrian School after WWI: In the Case of Ludwig von Mises (Kiichiro Yagi) -- Chapter 2. Capital and time - sources of innovation in the economic...

The present paper outlines the development of international trade thought, from the pre-doctrinal contributions of Greek philosophers and scholastic theologians, through the theories of the first schools of economic thought, and up to modern trade theories. I follow filiations of ideas in a...

There is no doubt that when income or wealth increases, impatience for present goods declines. When time preference for the present falls, interest rates decline as well. But is this phenomenon a necessary condition of human action as Rothbard and Hoppe contend? This is widely thought to be true...

Murray Rothbard developed the concept of decision-making rent as a return to a kind of unhirable labor performed by the entrepreneur in his role as owner and ultimate decision-maker of the firm. Rothbard conceived owner's rent as separate from profit and loss and the decision-making function as...

This paper adapts the entrepreneurial theory developed by Richard Cantillon, Frank Knight, and Ludwig von Mises to the theory of "political entrepreneurship." Political entrepreneurship is an outgrowth of the theory of the market entrepreneur, and derives from extending entrepreneurial theory...

In the years immediately prior to the financial crisis, the doctrine of an independent Fed had achieved broad and unquestioned acceptance, especially within the economics profession. Under cover of this doctrine the Fed deployed unconventional monetary policies to vastly expand its balance sheet...

This paper explores the neglected theory of entrepreneurial profit proposed by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Although historians of thought often dismiss Böhm-Bawerk's writings on this topic, we argue that he did develop a coherent theory of entrepreneurial decision making and profit distinct from...

What is now called the judgment-based approach to entrepreneurship (JBA) has a rich pedigree in Austrian economics and continues to grow rapidly in that tradition as well as in various research fields in business and management. The JBA has also attracted some criticisms. Frédéric Sautet’s...