Topic: Austrian School
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Not much stimulus from tax-cut deal
How much did the $862 billion stimulus package really help? Will the new tax cuts make any difference?
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Spotlight: John Cochran
Professor John P. Cochran, author and scholar, discusses the path that brought him to the Austrian school of economic thought.
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Economic collapse: Don't blame the free market
A more realistic view is that a housing boom and bust happened to strike a fragile financial system whose fragility was worsened by ill-conceived government interventions.
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Taking another look at how we measure inflation
Since no central bank could ever gather and process enough information to have a genuinely accurate idea of what is going on as millions of prices fluctuate against each other, is a completely non-targeted accurate measure of the market possible?
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Entrepreneurship and economics: An awkward relationship
Though entrepreneurship is important, modern theories of firm strategy don't quite understand out how to work the entrepreneur into the standard models and analytical techniques.
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The age of the rock-star economist is (mercifully) ending
In the trough of the great recession, America clung to a new breed of rock-star economist. Thankfully, that time seems to be ending.
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World's tallest building: Is the Burj Khalifa a herald of economic woe?
The world's tallest buildings usually open when the economy has crashed, just like Monday's opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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