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Socialism: The Calculation Problem Is Not the Knowledge Problem

Calculation and Knowledge

Blog03/16/2018

This market process is what allows a capitalist system to efficiently allocate resources, whereas a socialist system cannot—not even “in principle.”

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Economics Is Like Birdwatching — You Have to Know What to Look For

Bureaucracy and RegulationCalculation and KnowledgePhilosophy and Methodology

Blog01/20/2018
Using economics is akin to birdwat­ching, except for the fact that few untrained birdwatch­ers presume they have enough expertise to “educate” others.
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How Expectations Coordinate Markets

Calculation and KnowledgePhilosophy and Methodology

Blog01/02/2018
But when prices change today, what are they telling the various and relevant market participants about what it suggests will be the situation tomorrow?
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The Wage-Gap Debate Is Based on Junk Science

Calculation and Knowledge

Blog01/02/2018
Without the marketplace, we cannot calculate the value of workers, whether male or female. There is no "objective" measure of an employee.
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A New Collection on Austrian Economics

Calculation and KnowledgeCapital and Interest TheoryOther Schools of ThoughtProduction Theory

Blog01/01/2018
This collection provides an overview of several promising developments relating to core problems in Austrian economics.
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Net Neutrality and the Problem with "Experts"

Calculation and KnowledgePrices

Blog12/11/2017
Supporters of net neutrality imagine that if we can only get the "right" group of people, a tiny handful of "experts" can govern the internet.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt VI: Social Evolution as Ideological Struggle

Calculation and KnowledgeHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

Blog10/31/2017
The course of social evolution and the fortunes of humanity are inextricably bound up with the fortunes of the ongoing ideological struggle.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt V: The Problem of Socialism: Calculation or Knowledge?

Calculation and KnowledgeHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

Blog10/30/2017
Mises's critique of the possibility of socialism is not about knowledge but about calculation.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt IV: Use of Calculation versus Use of Knowledge: The Social Function of Prices

Calculation and KnowledgeHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

Blog10/28/2017
Economic calculation itself is not the means of acquiring knowledge, but the very prerequisite of rational action within society.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt III: Economic Calculation, Market, and Society

Calculation and KnowledgeHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

Blog10/27/2017
The market and its configuration at any moment in time is to be explained by the human values and choices which give rise to these exchanges.
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