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Radio 4 documentary on the Austrian School - Radical Economics: Yo Hayek!

Richard Wellings

31 January 2011

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Radio 4 has produced a documentary on F. A. Hayek and the Austrian school of economics. The programme, Radical Economics: Yo Hayek!, will be broadcast tonight (31st January) at 8:30. It...

“The Austrian School” by Jesús Huerta de Soto

Andre Johnston Phijuntjitr

6 July 2010

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It has become increasingly clear that interventionism played a significant role in precipitating the 2008 financial crisis. The Austrian School is more than capable of providing the...

The EU and hedge funds: silencing the dog that didn’t bark

Laurence Copeland

12 June 2009

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We could see it coming, couldn’t we? Those gigantic over-leveraged hedge funds were bound to come crashing down, as their massive bets turned sour, forcing them to default on their bank loans...

Blame our inadequate politicians for the slump

Philip Booth

1 June 2009

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In every walk of life there are people who are greedy, selfish and sometimes those who downright cheat. Some MPs stretched their expenses to the limit, some people have cheated on social security...

Government failure caused the financial crisis

authors of Verdict on the Crash

12 May 2009

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In a statement published today in the Daily Telegraph and reproduced below, fourteen leading economists – authors of the comprehensive new IEA study, Verdict on the Crash - explain...

Blame Brown’s reforms for the banking bust

Tim Congdon

30 March 2009

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The current financial crisis raises fundamental questions about the relationship between the commercial banks and the Bank of England. Before 1997 Britain had a system in which the Bank of England...

Gordon’s speech to Congress

Philip Booth

6 March 2009

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Surely Gordon Brown needs a new speech writer. Apparently the US Congress voted with their feet, with the empty seats being filled up with staffers but, had they stayed, what would they have...

Questions over quantitative easing

Richard Wellings

13 February 2009

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From a monetarist perspective, a strong case can be made in support of the Bank of England’s decision to engage in quantitative easing. A severe deflationary shock would cause big problems for...

Economics on the web (12.2.09)

Richard Wellings

12 February 2009

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● Philip Booth discusses the growing debt burden in the Yorkshire Post ● Eamonn Butler explains why political interference is creating a new banking crisis ● ...

Banking on corporatism

Terry Arthur

30 January 2009

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Adam Smith’s ‘agency problem’, the separation of ownership from control, enables big-business executives and directors to pursue their own agenda. All too often this results in an...

Economics on the web (29.01.09)

Richard Wellings

29 January 2009

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● Philip Booth discusses Barack Obama on American Public Radio ● Peter Boettke explains why politicians are making the recession worse ● Donald Boudreaux has...

Will the economic crisis reduce poverty?

Kristian Niemietz

28 January 2009

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Once the current recession is finally over, poverty researchers might well find themselves confronted with a puzzle. For it is entirely possible that the downturn will actually help the government...

Let them eat debt

Nick Silver

26 January 2009

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In his excellent book, The Origin of Wealth, Eric Beinhocker argues that it is markets, not individual companies, which are most effective at allocating resources. This apparently subtle distinction...

The financial crisis shows why we should admire Friedrich Hayek

Philip Booth

22 January 2009

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Some people have suggested that the current crisis suggests that ‘free’ markets are dead. Given the high degree of regulatory scrutiny in the financial sector that is not a point of view...

Demography and the financial crisis

Nick Silver

21 January 2009

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The Financial Times’ chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, has put forward a convincing explanation for the ultimate cause of the current financial crisis. To briefly summarise, some...

Should banks be lending to house buyers?

Peter King

19 January 2009

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Should the UK government really be encouraging households to borrow money to buy houses in the current climate? And should it be encouraging banks to lend to them as part of the latest bailout...

Economics on the web (13.1.08)

Richard Wellings

13 January 2009

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● John Blundell advocates the privatisation of Britain’s forests – and explains why Adam Smith must be rolling in his grave. ● Eamonn Butler argues that...

A perfect storm: the UK’s next banking crisis

Nick Silver

6 January 2009

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The UK has recently undergone a banking crisis, the reasons for which have been much analysed, but basically boil down to a mixture of liquidity problems (banks unwilling to lend to each other) and...

Green ‘New Deal’ will sink the UK further into the red

Richard Wellings

5 January 2009

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Will a green ‘New Deal’ help get Britain out of recession? The Liberal Democrats, for example, have proposed the reopening of disused railway lines as a means of boosting the economy....

Madoff and the regulation of financial markets

Richard Wellings

18 December 2008

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The Madoff scandal is yet more bad news for the financial sector. Several major banks may have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the alleged scam. An important question is whether this would...

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