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| Principles of economics, translated |
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"Mankiw's 10 principles of economics, translated
for the uninitiated", by Yoram Bauman,
http://www.standupeconomist.com . Presented at the
AAAS humor session, February 16, 2007. For the
record, the talk contains two unattributed quotes
("9 out of 5" is adapted from a line attributed to
Paul Samuelson---although apparently he said it
about Wall Street indices, not
macroeconomists---and "wrong about things" is
paraphrased from P.J. O'Rourke's Eat the Rich)
and, of course, the Einstein "simple" quote is an
intentional misquote. The talk is based on a
published article in Annals of Improbable Research
(see
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v
9i2/mankiw.html ), which sponsored my talk and to
which you should subscribe
(http://improb.com/subscribe/ ). In the paper you
can see the "constructive example" of how trade
can make everyone worse off (or you can just wait
50 years to see what happens with climate change).
More info and other clips on my website
(http://www.standupeconomist.com ), and please
sign up for my email list. (No spam I promise.)
Tags : Mankiw Mankiw's Principles of Economics translated AAAS AIR Yoram Bauman stand-up economist |
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Durée : 320 s |
| Liberty and Economics |
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What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As this
unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a man who
never stopped fighting for freedom: not when the
Nazis burned his books, not when the Left
blackballed him at universities, not when it
seemed as if statism had won. With courage and
genius, he fought big government until the day he
died ... in 25 books, hundreds of articles, and
more than 60 years of teaching.
Mises's battles against Communists, Nazis, and
other socialists, are featured in this film, as
are his ideas of Liberty. There is also the old
Vienna he loved, the Bolshevik prime minister he
dissuaded from Communism, and a cast of villains
from Lenin to Hitler, as well as such supporters
and students as Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Bettina
Greaves, M. Stanton Evans, Mary Peterson, Joseph
Sobran, and Yuri Maltsev.
Among his many accomplishments, Mises showed that
socialism had to fail, that central banking causes
recessions and depressions, that the gold standard
is honest money, and that only laissez-faire
capitalism is fully compatible with Western
civilization.
Mises was the twentieth century's foremost
economist, and one of its most important champions
of Liberty. Here is a film that does justice to
this extraordinary man, and to his equally
extraordinary ideas.
Tags : Ludwig von Mises Austrian Economics Liberty Freedom Capitalism Free Market Socialism |
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Affichage : 35806
Durée : 2269 s |
| The Future of Austrian Economics |
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This is the famous speech by Murray Rothbard given
in the days following the collapse of the Soviet
empire. His exuberance is palpable has he explains
the meaning of it all for the place of liberty in
the history of civilization.
A brilliant scholar and passionate defender of
Liberty, Professor Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) was
dean of the Austrian School of economics, holder
of the S.J. Hall Chair at the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, and Academic Vice President of
the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
The author of 17 books and thousands of articles,
the foremost Misesian economist, the father of
modern freedom theory, and the most delightful
personality in the profession, this great teacher
here spellbinds an audience of students, faculty,
and business leaders in the "Future of Austrian
Economics," at the 1990 Mises University at
Stanford.
Only Austrian economics, Rothbard shows, can
explain the collapse of socialism/communism and
tell us what should replace it: laissez-faire
capitalism. There is a lesson here as well, he
shows, for dealing with the Leviathan in
Washington, D.C.
Tags : Austrian economics rothbard mises freedom liberty anarchy libertarian |
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Durée : 2978 s |
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