War and the Austrian School: Modern Austrian economists take on aggressive wars
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https://doi.org/10.15355/epsj.7.1.30Keywords:
Austrian School, war, peaceAbstract
The Austrian school of economics increasingly has become identified with antiwar groups. This is not due to religious or political views. Rather, the antiwar viewpoints of the Austrians come from the fundamental tenets of economics as expressed by the school's founders and refined for 140 years. This article applies post-world war II Austrian thought to the subject of war.References
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