A balanced and competent discussion, originally published in Norwegian in 1938, of the controversy set off by the studies of such economists as Barone, Von Mises, Hayek, Robbins and Lange. The author ...

A key part of my Conservative Futurist™, Up Wing approach toward policymaking is what Nobel laureate economist Friedrich Hayek called “the fatal conceit” — the mistaken belief that tinkering human ...

Is it possible to implement an efficient economic alternative to market capitalism using economic planning? The debate, which has blown both hot and cold over the last 80 years, has turned on the ...

1. LABOUR-TIME ACCOUNTING OR CALCULATION IN KIND? In 1920 Ludwig von Mises published an article “Die Wirtschaftsrechnung im sozialistischen Gemeinwesen”, which was translated into English in 1935 as ...

The UMass study found other potential flaws in the 2010 report including unconventional statistical weighting and selective data omission, but thus far Reinhart and ...

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This essay is the first in a series from the book Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Political Philosophy, edited by AEI’s Michael R. Strain and Stan A. Veuger. Check back in ...

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