Whats the Difference between the Economic Schools of thought?
There is a high up Market Analyst my dad knows, who puts out a wide spread newsletter analyzing the markets, sectors, shares, etc. with ratios, charts etc. He's never heard of the Austrian School before, as my dad was telling him about me I gather... anyway so he wants to have a talk about it.
Dunno when that will take place, but I hope to do market analysis or at least in some way get paid for doing what I love - so I hope to impress this guy. But then I started to think, well.. how you could apply it to the markets? I can show this guy the business cycle shouldn't exist etc.. but he's just going to be like, 'ok - but it does' lol.
There is a business cycle unfortunately, so how can Austrian be used, or be of any benefit in analysis etc? I mean, we know the REAL truth - but how to apply it, benefit from what we know? How do I show the guy I'd be of use to him and his company..
And just more widely, what avenues are there for the Austrian school of thought in jobs, in terms of becoming adapt with Austrian economics? Financial companies hire people, and if you have a niche you're all the better for it... and I love economics, so I kind of want to pursue this Thanks
DriftWood, people here are giving you a hard time, picking on every little irrelevancy. I just want to point out that I find your points interesting and well studied, so I hope you don't give up on us. ;) Anyway, I wished these different strategies on money could co-exist; I don't see it as a chaotic change at all, because people wouldn't just exchange their money for another, one day to the next. It seems like it would be a smooth change, unless the current central really messes things up, that might change region to region, and the currencies that provide the most stable prices would tend to win. Possibly there could be other monies, like precious metals, used for storage...
Equality before the law and material equality are not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time. -- F. A. Hayek in The Constitution of Liberty
Check on his posting history before assuming anyone is giving him a "hard" time.
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Yeah, if someone wanted to give him a hard time, they would send Nicky his way.
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Sort of like the nuclear last resort option. Speaking of him, wonder where he's disappeared off to these days.
Jon Irenicus: Sort of like the nuclear last resort option. Speaking of him, wonder where he's disappeared off to these days. -Jon
Firebombing police stations I would imagine...
Anonymous Coward: Jon Irenicus: Sort of like the nuclear last resort option. Speaking of him, wonder where he's disappeared off to these days. -Jon Firebombing police stations I would imagine...
I wish him well nonetheless. I miss his charming ad hom arguments
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Drift, I don't mean to insult, but you've really gone into the realm of the absurd when you began saying that the value of something "in paper" can be more than "in reality."
I don't think you understand the fact that the value of a commodity "in paper" represents the value of a commodity "in reality." For example, when the price of crude oil goes up in the stock market, what happens? Well, gas costs more. Why is that? Because the paper value (and therefore the real value) of a key ingredient in gasoline became more expensive.
Likewise, gold ETFs and real gold have the same value. Why is that? Because as people buy more gold ETFs that translates into a higher demand of real gold also because the value of gold and gold ETFs are linked in every possible legal and economic sense.
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Jon Irenicus: From that description, it seems very vague; mayhap it's just another school promising the world whilst offering little of substance? A lot of heterodox schools other than the Austrians (and perhaps the Marxians and Institutionalists) do not seem to have much depth to them. -Jon
From that description, it seems very vague; mayhap it's just another school promising the world whilst offering little of substance? A lot of heterodox schools other than the Austrians (and perhaps the Marxians and Institutionalists) do not seem to have much depth to them.
Well, technically speaking, every school of thought except the neoclassical school is "heterodox." So I'd include Austrians, Keynesians (and their derivatives), monetarists, and new classicists in what I would consider heterodox schools of thought that have depth.
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