Profiles

Presented in Vienna, Austria, on 20 September 2011. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

Josef Sima presents the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture: The Quest for a Property-Based, Misesian Economic. From the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference.

The law & economics movement has become one of the most dynamic schools within economics. Its origin is often dated back to the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, but insights about the interconnections of economics and the law can be found in the works of earlier economists. Volume...

Since the end of the Second World War, the issue of European integration has taken on ever-greater economic and political importance. Upon communism’s collapse in Eastern and Central Europe, a special new dimension was added to the process. The idea of building a united and integrated Europe...

It is the task of this paper to describe what can happen to “a good cause” when it is “ineptly defended,” and to address the problem of the relationship between a verbal free-market support and advocacy in general on one hand, and practical political statements and policy...