This issue contains selected lectures, papers, and abstracts of papers presented at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference in Auburn, Alabama. Articles include Daniel Ajamian’s “The Cost of the Enlightenment,” Michael Rectenwald’s “Libertarianism(s) versus Postmodernism and ‘Social Justice’ Ideology,” Edward Fuller’s “Keynes and the Ethics of Socialism,” Jeffery Degner’s “Family Formation, Fertility, and Failure: A Literature Review on Price Increases and Their Impact on the Family Institution,” and more.
- ArticlesReason, equality, separation of church and state, and science and politics freed from religious dogma have characterized the Enlightenment. Have these ideas given us freedom, or cost us freedom?
- Articles"Woke capitalism"—referring to companies that engage in corporate activism--tells us a great deal about contemporary corporate capitalism, the political left, and the relationship between the two.
- ArticlesThe previously unexplored evidence presented here confirms that Keynes advocated a consistent form of non-Marxist socialism from no later than 1907 until his death in 1946.
- ArticlesA closer look at differences between Mises's and Schumpeter's economic theories suggests that their fundamental divergences have their origin in methodological and epistemological questions.
- ArticlesInflation not only debases currency, but damages the family institution, eroding the quantity and quality of marriages while creating distortions in the decision-making processes of those hoping to establish families.
- ArticlesCan sociology be integrated into Mises's epistemological distinction between theory and history? What can sociology accomplish as a historical discipline?
- ArticlesHow can state enterprises in Venezuela be desocialized? What would a privatization law look like for Venezuela? The authors describe a proposal to move Venezuela toward free markets.
- ArticlesThis is a collection of abstracts from some of the papers presented at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference held at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.