Value and Exchange

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Walter Block William Barnett II

Transitivity in economics maintains that if a is preferred to b, and b to c, then a must also be preferred to c. 

William Barnett II

Neoclassical utility functions are an invalid means of analyzing consumer behavior for three reasons: first, and most important, because such functions, and their attendant rankings, are cardinal, not ordinal in nature; 

Ben O'Neill

We examine the strict preference approach to the interpretation of human action and the assertion that a choice cannot be made between actions in which the actor is indifferent to the outcomes.

Rodolfo Alejo Gonzalez

This note has shown that the possibility of the income effect of a price change is implied by the Misesian pure logic of choice. This note has not assumed that our individual must consume more than four loaves of bread to survive.

Walter Block

he author provides a commentary. Despite Hoppe’s more elegant way of describing choice, it still remains a logical contradiction to oppose indifference and embrace  interchangeable commodity units.

Marian Eabrasu

This paper deals with the meaning and the limits of the subjective theory of value. Economists deploy this theory in such various areas as utility, marginalism, knowledge and expectations.

George Reisman

Böhm-Bawerk is the most important Austrian economist after Ludwig von Mises.  The author says this on the basis of the fact that his writings provide by far the best and most comprehensive development

John B. Egger

Teaching Microeconomic Principles well, a blend of good pedagogy and good economics, is the professional obligation of many economists. Since such courses are conventionally grounded in neoclassical theory,

Marek Hudík

In response to Block and Barnett (2012), this paper clarifies some misunderstandings about the concept of transitivity and shows its relation to rationality, asynchronicity of choice

Barry Dean Simpson Scott A. Kjar

The circular-flow approach is decidedly Neoclassical, and suffers from many problems which traditional Austrians would notice. The circular-flow diagram’s greatest problem is, in fact, its circularity.