Showing posts with label Austrian economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austrian economics. Show all posts
Friday, April 11, 2025

TGIF: The Objectively Invaluable Menger

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Many people are uneasy with the free market. I think that's because they subscribe, implicitly if not explicitly, to the labor theory of...
Friday, April 04, 2025

TGIF: The Great Carl Menger

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There can be no doubt among competent historians that if ... the Austrian School has occupied an almost unique position in the development o...
Friday, June 07, 2024

TGIF: Freedom or Power

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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, the Austrian-school economist who learned from Carl Menger and taught Ludwig von Mises, speaks to the ages. We ignore...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

TGIF: Ducking Hayek

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May 8 marked the 124th anniversary of the birth of F. A. Hayek, the 1974 Nobel-winning economist of the Austrian school. (He died in 1992.) ...
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Friday, November 12, 2021

TGIF: Equal Rights Now!

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A pet peeve of mine is the distinction, drawn even by some market enthusiasts, between so-called personal liberty (or civil liberties) and e...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Poor Guide to Government Action

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My latest column for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Poor Guide to Government Action."
Monday, May 26, 2014

TGIF: Immortal Keynes?

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Whatever you may think of Keynesian economics, you have to give it credit for one thing: its staying power.  Read about it here .
Saturday, August 03, 2013

Bastiat and Subjective Marginal Utility

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Frederic Bastiat really was a precursor of the Austrian school.  Menger was indeed a revolutionary, but that does not mean that no one be...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

TGIF: Loving Economics

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TGIF this week is a review essay of Peter Boettke’s new book, Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow . Enjoy!
Friday, February 01, 2013

Recent Scribblings

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TGIF: "Economy or Catallaxy? Op-ed: "The Ominous U.S. Presence in Northwest Africa" Op-ed: "Mali: Here We Go Again...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

How the Rich Rule

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My article by that name is now online at The American Conservative . One aspect of the article has been criticized by market monetarist  Sc...
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

The Law of Cost, cont’d.

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More from Philip Wicksteed, The Common Sense of Political Economy : We can now see how "cost of production," which is simply ...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

The Law of Cost

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For anyone who thinks that costs do not govern value and price, hear Philip Wicksteed, the British "Austrian," thoroughgoing subje...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

TGIF: Value, Cost, Marginal Utility, and Bohm-Bawerk

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Does cost of production determine price or does price determine cost of production? In the world of economic caricatures, the classical econ...
Saturday, January 08, 2011

The Austrians and the Classicals

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It is not without wisdom that Lionel Robbins says, in his introduction to Wicksteed’s Common Sense of Political Economy, “a very good case c...
Friday, January 07, 2011

TGIF: The Importance of Subjectivism in Economics

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For an exchange to take place, the two parties must assess the items traded differently, with each party valuing what he is to receive more...
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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Setting the Price

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Someone once said that economics is about price formation. The price of a reproducible good is set between two boundaries. The upper limit i...
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Friday, August 06, 2010

TGIF: Austrian Exploitation Theory

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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914), the second-generation giant of Austrian economics, famously refuted the theory, most commonly associat...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

TGIF: Jefferson's Economist

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In 1817 the Frenchman the Count Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) published his Treatise on the Will and Its Effects . Thomas Jefferson, who seve...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

TGIF: Being for the Free Market Isn't Enough

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Harold Meyerson, an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, this week launched a devastating attack on what he calls "mainstream econo...