Steven Horwitz
sghorwitz@stlawu.eduContributing editor and Freeman Online columnist Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and the author of Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective, now in paperback.
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Is Being Less Productive Good for Humanity?
OCTOBER 17, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
Economists know that just making more stuff isn't the same as productivity--it has to be stuff people want, at prices they're willing to pay. The nation's most famous newspaper doesn't seem to get this, so Steven Horwitz delivers a lesson in basic economics.
The Calling
On Competition and Entrepreneurship
The third pillar of the Austrian revival.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
If Austrian economics, and classical liberalism more generally, are to win minds and hearts in the world of ideas, it will be by doing as Israel Kirzner does.
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On Individualism and Economic Order
Great Austrian works of the twentieth century
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
Many of the themes that characterize Austrian economics since its revival in the mid-1970s emerged from these essays.
The Calling
On Human Action
We owe a debt to Ludwig von Mises.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
Human Action remains one of the great achievements in the social sciences and perhaps the single most important economic treatise of the twentieth century.
The Calling
Debating the Stimulus
Avoid the GDP distraction.
SEPTEMBER 06, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
As the debate over the stimulus continues into November, classical liberals should be aware of the essential issues.
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The Costs of Inflation
NOVEMBER 14, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
Dr. Steve Horwitz explains the cause and costs of inflation.
Dr. Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He is the author of two books, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (Routledge, 2000) and Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order (Westview, 1992).
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Regulation and Intervention
NOVEMBER 14, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
Should governments regulate and intervene to correct "market failures?"
Steve Horwitz explains the dynamics of interventionism and the issues with regulating and intervening in the free market.
"What regulation and intervention do is prevent markets from discovering new ways of solving existing problems and new ways of solving new problems. When regulation erects barriers to entry or other kinds of limits on market behavior, it cuts short this discovery process, and that leads to inefficiency and waste of resources."
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What Austrian Economics IS and What Austrian Economics Is NOT
NOVEMBER 14, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
Steve Horwitz, Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University, explains what Austrian Economics is and what Austrian Economics is not, clearing up some common misconceptions.
This video is based on Steve's essay by the same name:
http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2010/11/what-austrian-economics-is-and-wha...
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