Sparks Commentary

So I recently finished an audiobook about Léon Walras (pronounced “Valras”), a  French  economist who was alive from the years 1834 to 1910...

So I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the American economist  Frank Knight , who lived from 1885 to 1972. It was just call...

So I recently finished listening to an economics audiobook about Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek . It was called “The Austrian Cas...

I recently finished listening to an audiobook called “Monetarism and Supply Side Economics.” In a way, it was almost like two audiobooks tha...

So I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen , who lived from 1857 to 1929. It w...

So I recently finished an audiobook about  Alfred Marshall , a British economist who lived from 1842 to 1924. This audiobook was called “Al...

So I recently finished an audiobook about “The German Historical School of Economics,” an important school for economic thought . They were ...

“The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself ...

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too usele...

So I recently listened to an audiobook called “Struggle over the Keynesian Heritage.” It was the sequel to an earlier audiobook called “Keyn...

“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer t...

So I recently finished an audiobook about “Early Austrian Economics,” about the famous Austrian School in the  late-nineteenth  and  early-...

I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Austrian economist  Joseph Schumpeter , who lived from 1883 to 1950. He eventually e...

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own inter...

I once read “The Communist Manifesto”  itself in English translation in 2012, because it is a shorter work that requires very little time...

One of the central tenets of Marxism is the "labor theory of value," which is the idea that the economic value of something is d...

"The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which...

" ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neit...

" A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism . All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcis...