Value and Exchange

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T. Norman Van Cott

When people change cities, they are likely to change their consumption patterns — which means a simple cost-of-living index doesn't tell us what it should.

Ludwig von Mises

In spite of claims they will benefit society overall, interventionist policies designed to benefit certain interest groups ultimately only help certain groups at the expense of everyone else.

Justin Murray

If local prices are sending the message that everything's perfectly normal, residents may be overly optimistic about the risks they face during natural disasters.

David Gordon

Those who oppose "consumerism" contend it is wrong to give consumers what they want if they want the wrong things.

Walter Block

Gentrification gets bad press. It would appear that the gentrifier (he who engages in gentrification) is a malign exploiter, a bully, someone who takes advantage of the weak and the poor. And these are the nice things said about him.

Chris Calton

People usually recoil at the idea of trading babies for money, but in the wake of Soviet deprivation, easy-adoption laws helped countless orphans in Romania.

Brian Balfour

Calls for finding efficiencies in government by electing or appointing people to “run it like a business” are futile.

Contrary to the Austrian community’s former perception, we revealed value investing’s incompatibility with Austrian economics

Ryan McMaken

Business owners understand that the key to prosperity is to reduce costs and deliver more goods to the customer. Wage workers, however, often want higher prices in order to "protect" their jobs.

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Even if everyone were totally charitable, we still could not build a complex economy without the price mechanism provided by markets.