by Greg Stuessel | Nov 6, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Exchange Prices and Production in Hyperinflation dissects the catastrophic German hyperinflation of 1920–1923 through Frank Graham’s rigorous 1930 study, revealing how the mark’s collapse (prices doubling in hours, trillion-mark notes) masked a counterfeit prosperity....
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 5, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Human Action (1949) by Ludwig von Mises stands as a monumental defense of liberty, redefining economics as praxeology—the study of purposeful human action driven by individuals seeking to alleviate uneasiness under conditions of scarcity. Mises argues that all...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 4, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Freedom and the Law by Bruno Leoni (from 1958 lectures) delivers a radical critique: the greatest threat to liberty in democracies isn’t tyrants but the explosive growth of legislation—statutes and regulations that drown society in unpredictable, arbitrary rules....
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 3, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Folkways by William Graham Sumner offers a profoundly naturalistic, almost biological account of society as an organic growth rather than a designed system. Sumner argues that the deepest roots of social order are the folkways—unconscious, inherited habits and customs...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 2, 2025 | The Deep Dive
The Constitution of Liberty (1960) by F.A. Hayek offers a profound and systematic defense of individual freedom at the height of Cold War collectivism, arguing that true liberty is the absence of coercion—being free from the arbitrary will of others—and that only a...
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