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Austrian Facts Bring the Death of ‘Normal Science’ in Macroeconomics

03/23/2011 Mises Wire Greg Ransom

A brief period of Kuhnian “normal science” is now over in macroeconomics — the news comes directly from the top guns in the field (see also here, here, here, and here.) What killed it? A series of...

Beck, D’Souza, Obama’s father, and socialism

09/30/2010 Mises Wire Greg Ransom

Since WWII perhaps the most potent strain of anti-capitalist, anti-Western ideology has been powered by the conceptions of Hobson and Lenin as much as by those of Marx and the Webbs. On this view...

Seeing Is Believing — 20 Miles of Mothballed Lumber Hauling Rail Cars

08/16/2010 Mises Wire Greg Ransom

[UPDATE: Welcome Instapundit readers. Check out the comments section below for additional eyewitness accounts of mile after mile after mile of mothballed rail transport cars in Eastern Colorado...

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