Alex Salter

asalter2@masonlive.gmu.edu

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The Not-So-Great Austerity Debate

MAY 23, 2013 by ALEX SALTER

GDP, by itself, does not tell the whole story about economic well-being.

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The Nature and Origin of Money

DECEMBER 07, 2012 by ALEX SALTER

Arguments that money is a creature of the State are not only wrong, they're dangerous. Alex Salter explains how, perhaps more than anything else, money is the prime example of Hayek's spontaneous orders.

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Economics and the Calculation Problem

OCTOBER 29, 2012 by ALEX SALTER

Central planning can't deliver resources efficiently because it ignores the full complexity of the price system.Alex Salter lays it out.

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May 2013

From natural systems to human systems, we start to notice patterns in nature that are products of good flow. Adrian Bejan discusses this crucial insight--and how it makes freedom even more needful--in this month's interview. Zachary Caceres looks at what emergence can tell us about the universe, the market, the heart, and the sacred; Mike Reid recounts the tragedies produced when the State tries to impose its order on people who have already developed their own; Gary Galles channels Leonard Read: the State is a clenched fist, he says, so it cannot create; Brad Taylor says democracy might just be another imposed order in some situations; Karl Borden wonders whether an individual's right to be left alone can be part of the order of things; and much, much more.Download Free PDF

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