Resources for Economics for Real People

In my humble, unbiased opinion, the best economic site on the web is Mises.org, the web site of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. The site features daily articles on contemporary economic issues, back issues of several periodicals, a number of online books by Mises, and many other resources for both scholars and students. Best of all, it's all searchable. Editor Jeff Tucker has created an economics web site that is worth going to every day, no small feat.

Greg Ransom, apparently accomplishing a Herculean effort on his own, has established a thriving Hayek Center site that is also worth checking into frequently. Greg keeps up-to-date lists of articles that have interested him, both on Hayek and on political economy in general, and runs a very active discussion group for Hayek scholars.

The web site of The Foundation for Economic Education, after being stagnant for some time, has recently become an active and interesting place to visit. The Ideas on Liberty archive is a great resource.

The Henry Hazlitt Foundation has another web site worth visiting, Hazlitt.org. Although not updated as frequently as the two mentioned above, it includes several e-texts by Hazlitt. The Foundation also operates Free-Market.net, an excellent compendium of economics news and articles.

iGreens is an excellent site on free-market environmetalism.


Resources by Chapter

Chapter One: What's Going On?

On the nature of economics.

Chapter Two: Alone Again, Unnaturally

On the economic circumstances of the isolated individual.

Chapter Three: As Time Goes By

On the factor of time in human action.

Chapter Four: Let's Stay Together

On direct exchange and the social order.

Chapter Five: Money Changes Everything

On indirect exchange.

Chapter Six: A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens

On the employment of imaginary constructs in economics.

Chapter Seven: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker

On the nature of economic roles.

Chapter Eight: Make a New Plan, Stan

On the place of capital in the economy.

Chapter Nine: What Goes Up

On the effect of fluctuations in the money supply.

Chapter Ten: A World Become One

On the difficulties of the socialist commonwealth.

Chapter Eleven: The Third Way

On government interference in the market process.

Chapter Twelve: Fiddling with Prices While the Market Burns

On price floors and price ceilings.

Chapter Thirteen: Times Are Hard

On the causes of the business cycle.

Chapter Fourteen: Unsafe at Any Speed

Chapter Fifteen: One Man Gathers What Another Man Spills

On externalities, positive and negative.

Chapter Sixteen: Stuck on You

On the theory of path dependence.

Chapter Seventeen: See the Pyramids Along the Nile

On government efforts to promote industry.

Chapter Eighteen: Where Do We Go from Here?

On the political economy of the Austrian School.

Appendix A: A Brief History of the Austrian School

Great Austrian Economists (Bios from mises.org)

Appendix B: Logical Economics and Mathematical Economics


Home Pages of Interest

Austrian economists, other economists of interest, economic commentators, etc.

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