Philip Booth: What ministers should learn from Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty
byThere is a great article by Philip Booth over at CentreRight, on Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty: In essence it explains how a complex…
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Joseph T. Salerno: Calculation and Socialism
byOne of the greatest contributions of Ludwig von Mises to the modern world was his sweeping demolition of the intellectual case for Karl Marx’s…
Austrian Economics: Past, Present and Future
byOur friends at the Adam Smith Institute are hosting an event next week to launch Dr Eamonn Butler’s latest book, Austrian Economics: A Primer:…
Jim Rickards: The Keynesian Fractionator
byYou hear it on the BBC, when James Naughtie talks about the ‘Pump Prime’; it is what lies behind every recent speech by Obama,…
First reading of Carswell’s Financial Services Bill
byDouglas Carswell MP yesterday delivered a superb speech in support of his eagerly anticipated Financial Services (Regulation of Deposits and Lending) Bill, introduced as…
A Bill to Fight Crony Capitalism
bySteve Baker MP has an article in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled “A Bill to Fight Crony Capitalism”: If you borrow a friend’s painting…
Cobden Centre Radio: What has been going on and what can we do about it?
byIn our third Cobden Centre Radio show, Brian Micklethwait spends a full hour interviewing Toby Baxendale about his plan for monetary reform in the…
Michael Pento: Bernanke’s “Unconventional Measures”
byMichael Pento is a senior economist at Euro Pacific Capital and a proponent of the Austrian School of economics. He spoke recently to Eric…
Support for Douglas Carswell’s forthcoming Bill to reform the banks
byThe news of Douglas Carswell’s upcoming Ten Minute Rule Bill is spreading like wildfire, and generating some real excitement. Nick Cowen at Civitas asks…
Does the US economy need another stimulus package?
byDespite the massive fiscal stimulus package of nearly $800 billion approved by the Congress early last year, and trillions of dollars pumped by the…