Mark Thornton joins me to discuss his new book — to which I contributed the foreword — on the so-called “skyscraper curse” and Austrian business cycle theory, and how economists of the Austrian School have been able to spot oncoming crises to which other economists have been blind.
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Book Discussed
Get the free audiobook version at Mises.org/CurseAudio, and free book downloads (PDF, epub) at
Mises.org/Curse.
Other Books by the Guest
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War (with Robert Ekelund)
The Economics of Prohibition
The Quotable Mises
Guest’s Twitter
Previous Appearances
Ep. 630 The Legalization Cure for the Heroin Epidemic
Ep. 443 As the Drug War Recedes, What Are the Results?
Ep. 422 How the Fed Is Helping the Few and Hurting the Rest
Ep. 366 If There Were an Aristocracy of Wrong, Its Lords Would Be Fed Chairmen
Ep. 307 The War on Drugs: Born 100 years Ago – December 17, 2014 – Mark Thornton
Ep. 158 The Fed and the 1%
Ep. 113 Has Austerity Failed?
Ep. 34 The Skyscraper Curse
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