A Brief Introduction

Greetings. My name is Eric Perkerson; I am a first-year student at the University of Georgia in Athens; I am an economics major and am a follower of the Austrian School of Economics, which supports a very laissez-faire approach to economic policy. I discovered this school of thought just over a year ago, right before the financial crisis hit, and the financial crisis confirmed to me that the Austrian School had a better understanding of how the real-world economy works, as Austrian Business Cycle Theory predicted the crisis. The most well known Austrian economists today are Ron Paul and Peter Schiff. The best source of information that I have found to date on Austrian economics is the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which has hundreds of articles on recent events, journals, academic papers, and just about every book ever written from the Austrian perspective. And so on this blog, I hope to educate people and promote public policy based on the Austrian School of Economics, while both commenting on recent events in politics and in the economy and while also discussing economics in general. Hopefully, you will continue to read until you begin to accept this rational approach to economic problems. And with this brief introduction, we begin......