Economics Department of Grove City College

10/27/2025

Had a great time at the Fall Economics Picnic at Dr. Herbener's house!

04/03/2024

Congratulations to GCC freshman Economics major Brae Sadler for winning honorable mention in the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Kenneth Garschina Undergraduate Student Essay Contest. 🥳🥳

He presented his award winning essay “Bureaucracy and Grove City College: How One College Resisted the Bureaucratization of Higher Education” at the 2024 Austrian Economics Research Conference.

04/03/2024

Another shoutout to GCC student Sam Peterson for presenting his paper, “Family Destructionism: Hyperinflation and the Familial Institution in Weimar Germany" at the the AERC. 👏👏

03/01/2023

Introducing "On Socialism," presented by some of our very own Econ Dept. professors!

Stay tuned for upcoming episodes of this informative series.

🚨Introducing the latest from Life of the Mind!🚨

LIFE OF THE MIND // Series Five: On Socialism
Lecture 1️⃣ by Dr. Shawn Ritenour, professor of Economics: "The Social Order and Human Flourishing"

🎥 Watch & Subscribe: https://youtu.be/BrN1lMxg10o

02/22/2023

Grove City College alumnus and renowned economist Dr. Peter Boettke ’83 will deliver the keynote Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at this year’s Austrian Student Scholars Conference on campus!

One of the country’s leading Austrian economists, Boettke is a professor of economics and philosophy and director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

The Wall Street Journal described him as “the intellectual standard-bearer for the Austrian school of economics that opposes government intervention in markets and decries federal spending to prop up demand during times of crisis.”

Read more about the conference ➡️ https://www.gcc.edu/Home/News-Archive/News-Article/ArtMID/1699/ArticleID/6007/Alum-Boettke-rising-star-Newman-to-address-Austrians

🗓️ Saturday, Feb. 25
🕰️ 7 PM

02/09/2023

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for the 2023 Austrian Student Scholar's Conference. Feb. 24-25th.

Full schedule now available: https://austrianstudentconference.com/2023-schedule/

12/20/2022

Congrats to GCC econ student Sam Peterson on his 2nd place prize in the Sound Money Scholarship essay contest!🥳

Eagle, Idaho (December 6, 2022) – Six outstanding students beat out almost 100 of their high-school and college peers in making the best case for sound money through an international, gold-backed scholarship competition... ...and the winners walked away with a total of $9,500 in scholarship awards...

12/20/2022

Congratulations to senior econ major Sebastian Anastasi on winning a prize in the Carl Menger Essay Contest at this year’s Southern Economic Association meeting!🥳

Congratulations to the winners of the Carl Menger Essay Contest this year, and thank you to the judges for your service. The winning essays are:

"The Marginal Effect of Institutions and Property Rights on Entrepreneurship"
Leonel A. Regalado Cardoso
Universidad Francisco Marroquín

"Organic Order"
Sebastian C. Anastasi
Grove City College

"Haiti and the Dominican Republic’s Long Road to Economic Growth Divergence"
Joseph Zhong
Claremont McKenna College

10/16/2022

Which makes the world go round, entrepreneurs or institutions? 🤔🤔
Read Dr. Fuller's latest with AIER:

"Understanding just how and when institutions matter requires an appreciation for imperfections in governance, the socially constructed nature of rules, and the unique knowledge and motivations of entrepreneurial actors." ~ Caleb S. Fuller