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Featured article The Austrian School of Economics derives its name from its Austrian founders and early supporters, including Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and Ludwig von Mises. Other significant economists include Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard and Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek. This school emphasizes the spontaneous organizing power of the price mechanism and holds that the complexity of subjective human choices makes mathematical modeling of the evolving market extremely difficult (or impossible). Its proponents tend to advocate a laissez faire approach to the economy and the enforcement of voluntary contractual agreements between economic agents, but otherwise the smallest imposition of coercive force (especially government-imposed) on commercial transactions. (more...) Edit this box From our newest articles How Capitalism Saved America is a book by American economist Thomas DiLorenzo, that offers an alternative view of many well-known historical events and figures. Public education is education sponsored by the government. Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012 maps the number of assigned delegates. Austrian Business Cycle Theory learning materials is an extensive reading list. Orphan works are copyrighted works for which the owner cannot be found. The Bank of Amsterdam was a full-reserve bank operating from 1609 to 1819. Add a new article to this box – More new articles

Current events United States lost the top-tier AAA credit rating. The US debt limit is raised by $2.1 trillion. Ron Paul announces that he will run for President of the United States. Osama bin Laden is killed in a raid on his residence in Pakistan. France, the United Kingdom, and the United States attack Libya. Add an event This week in history August 13 (add): 1912 – The United States enacted the Radio Act of 1912, requiring that amateur radio enthusiasts be licensed and severely limiting the wavelengths available to them. 1961 – East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall to stop emigration and encourage the establishment of a Communist state.