Calculation and Knowledge
Copyright and the Intellectuals
While IP may not stimulate true innovation and creativity, Hayek suggests that copyright might stimulate something more pernicious: the intellectua
Ideas Are Easy... Execution Is Difficult
Excellent post by Mike Masnick on Techdirt:
Machine to explain the economy (1949)
Thanks to Don Lloyd for this link to an interesting st
Natural Disasters, It Turns Out, Are Bad
It seems that we may never rid ourselves of the broken-window fallacy, writes Mark Thornton.
The Dangers of Samuelson’s Economic Method
Samuelson makes grandiose and indefensible claims on behalf of the use of mathematics in economics.
Study Guide to Human Action, Chapter XIII
Monetary calculation is the guiding principle of action in any society with a division of labor.
A Catechism on Political Economy
I surely should have heard about J.B. Say’s Catechism on Political Economy, but in fact I don’t recall knowing about it.
Study Guide to Human Action, Chapter XII
Economic calculation encompasses everything that trades against money. There is nothing "objective" about them.
Valuation Without Calculation
Acting man transfers the valuation of ends he aims at to the means.