Governments have so corrupted money that we forget that sound money, by providing both fungibility and privacy, has been a ...

In addition to his major theoretical works, von Mises also wrote several papers recommending solutions during moments of ...

It's the 171st birthday of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics, and his work is still relevant.

Here’s one that I doubt you’ve heard before: The founder of the Austrian school of economics, Carl Menger (1840-1921), might have altered the course of events in a way that made possible the ...

Initially, Menger reasoned, people must have traded goods directly against each other in barter. Yet there was a huge difficulty here in finding a “double coincidence of wants,” to use the ...

Austrian economics comes from the Austrian Empire in the mid-1800s. Austrian economists such as Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek believed the free market was the most efficient ...

Carl Menger, an Austrian economist who wrote "Principles of Economics" in 1871, is considered by many to be the founder of the Austrian school of economics.

A London Business School economist has been awarded the first Carl Menger Prize in recognition of her contribution to monetary macroeconomic and policy research. Hélène Rey, Professor of Economics, ...