Calculation and Knowledge

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Friedrich A. Hayek

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1974.

Leland B. Yeager

From The Review of Austrian Economics Vol. 9, No. 1, 1996.

Robert Blumen

Modern monetary systems operate on the ability to turn debt into money.

Joseph T. Salerno

The debate still continues. It is all about Mises’ initial article and then book on Socialism in 1922. He demonstrated the necessity of the price system and showed how subjective values were transformed into objective prices which could be used as meaningful cardinal numbers in economic calculation.

 

Dan Mahoney

Mahoney argues that although Mises correctly conceived of value as an ordinal relation, precluding the possibility of value imputation, in many of his expositions of the market process he adopts a notion of value as a cardinal thing in explaining the task confronting actors in either the planned or unplanned economy.

Gil Guillory

A common rejoinder to the program of laissez-faire is that market failures require government intervention. Just what does market failure mean, asks Gil Guilory.

Robert P. Murphy

In my seminar on spontaneous order, the topic today was road design.

Wladimir Kraus

It is an error to believe that prosperity correlates directly and positively with consumption spending, writes Vlad Menshikov.