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Illustrations of productive structure.

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UsernamemanresU posted on Sat, Oct 4 2008 3:15 PM

I am looking for text which, in clear language, illustrates both the structure of production and how it morphs.

The text can be an essay, chapters in a book, whatever, just so long as the writing is pithy and chock-full of examples. Sadly, steady streams of logical fact do not coalesce very well in my noggin. I absorb concepts visually. Rothbard and de Soto are great for this but, greedily, I am hoping for more.

Does Hayek fit this bill? Which of his books?

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nje5019 replied on Sun, Oct 5 2008 1:30 AM

Time and Money by Roger Garrison is what you're looking for. 

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britainland replied on Sun, Oct 5 2008 3:13 PM

I second the suggestion of Garrison's Time and Money, but if you don't have the time or money (no pun intended) to read that, he provides an overview of the theory online. It requires some existing knowledge of economics, but you should be able to follow it, and if necessary you can read around the concepts Garrison is talking about in other works (such as some of the chapters in Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State).

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