All Posts Tagged With: "Steven Horwitz"
“F” as in Fed
The Federal Reserve, America’s fatally conceited monetary central planner, is not terribly popular these days—which is cause for hope—and now we have a report card on the entire Fed era that strongly supports the view that we’d be better off without it. At the very least, as the authors suggest, the burden of proof is [...]
24Feb2011 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Idea Room with Professor Steven Horwitz
Update: The transcript of this session has been posted here. Today FEE and The FreemanOnline.org hosted an hour-long Idea Room live chat with Professor Steven Horwitz. In a lively discussion about contemporary economic problems, Professor Horwitz answered questions on inflation, government spending, budget deficits, the gold standard, and many other subjects. Click here to visit [...]
21Jul2010 | Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski | 25 comments | ContinuedSomething Besides Money Growth Causes Inflation?
Howard Baetjer, Jr., is a lecturer in economics at Towson University. Some economic phenomena can result from a variety of causes. A temporary increase in unemployment, for example, might be caused by a sudden, disruptive change in production technology, or in trade patterns, or in labor or tax laws; or it could be caused by [...]
1Jul2007 | Howard Baetjer Jr. | 7 comments | ContinuedMicrofoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective by Steven Horwitz
Routledge · 2000 · 276 pages · $100.00 Reviewed by Gene Callahan Professor Steven Horwitz of St. Lawrence University has written an important new book laying the foundation of an Austrian school approach to macroeconomics. Horwitz is not addressing only fellow economists: While this book is certainly not an introductory work (don’t give it as [...]
1Dec2001 | Gene Callahan | 0 comments | Continued-
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