Carl Menger published his classic work Principles of Economics in 1871, that work is the founding text of what came known as the “Austrian School of Economics”. That label has now been used to describe a historical school of thought, as well as contemporary academic economists and public...

Carl Menger published Principles of Economics ([1871] 1976) 150 years ago in 1871, and he died 100 years ago in 1921 at the age of 81. Yet, what Joseph Schumpeter said of Menger after his death we could argue is still true today, “Menger is nobody's pupil and what he created stands”...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term capitalism refers to: “The possession of capital or wealth; an economic system in which private capital or wealth is used in the production or distribution of goods and prices are determined mainly in a free market; the dominance of private...

Liberal principles of self-government are severely tested when faced with an existential threat like foreign attack, financial crises, and a global pandemic. COVID-19 represented such an existential threat to the liberal order. The policy path followed as a consequence of such an emergency will...

The Austrian School of Economics has a long and storied history. Born in the context of fin de seicle Vienna, the historical and cultural context of the scientific contribution and the attitude and aptitudes of the different thinkers should not be forgotten even as the intellectual tradition...

Economics as a discipline has come under increasing scrutiny since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Sociologist Marion Fourcade and co-authors (2015) have challenged the arrogance of economists and pointed out the dysfunctional structure of the discipline that concentrates power and...

Carl Menger’s objective in his seminal book, Principles of Economics, was to elucidate a unified account of price formation. This raises a question, which motivates our paper: to what extent, if any, can Menger account for production not directly organized by the price mechanism, and therefore...

According to Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps (2013, p. 123), Mises’s critique of economic calculation under socialism renders him the originator of the economic analysis of property rights. This paper also suggests that implicit to Mises’s impossibility theorem was also the origins of the...

This essay was originally written for a journal issue on under appreciated thinkers. I selected Don Lavoie (1951-2001) and this essay provides an overview of his contributions to comparative economic systems, philosophy of science, computer science and social theory. Lavoie taught at GMU from...