Tagged “economics”
- Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire
August 11, 2009
This is a transcript of Prof. Joseph Peden's 50-minute lecture "Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire" given at the Seminar on Money and Government in Houston, Texas on October 27, 1984. The original audio recording is available courtesy of the Mises Institute. I have commissioned this transcript in the hope that you may find it as interesting and educational as I did.
- A Timely History Lesson from the Weimar Republic
October 9, 2008
Excerpts from Adam Smith's "Paper Money" on the hyperinflation in 1920s Germany, timely in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis.
- Envy, Ignorance and the Semantics of a Zero-Sum Delusion
April 26, 2008
On Larry J. Sechrest's talk on the anti-capitalists, and the envy and economic ignorance that feed the zero-sum delusion.