Production Theory

From Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth.

"The rationality, the effectiveness, and the justice of public policy which taxes enterprise according to one assumption while it gears, say, profit-incentive policies to its opposite is at least dubious."

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It seems that we may never rid ourselves of the broken-window fallacy, writes Mark Thornton.

The discussion on pages 635–636 explains the "tragedy of the commons," in which people overutilize a resource (such as a buffalo herd or pasture) because of weakly defined or enforced property rights.

Unemployment in the unhampered market is always voluntary.

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Presented at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2008.

To recap, what then we find is that not only does the availability of financial capital become wholly divorced from the extent of the pool of physical capital goods; not only does much of that pool become misused (and, hence, ultimately, stripped of its original "capitalness"); but that the wellspring of capital maintenance and augmentation — namely, voluntary saving — is concreted over to provide a gaudy, Baroque fountain of greater exhaustive consumption.

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