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Chapter 9 The Nature of Money
The Theory of Money and Credit
1. The General Economic Conditions for the Use of Money
Where the free exchange of goods and services is unknown, money is not wanted.
An awed hush descended over the crowd, as the most powerful man in the British economy prepared to give his response. Sitting at the front of the room, Bank of England governor Mark Carney surveyed his audience, paused to consider the question for a moment, and then finally decided on his answer: “Pizza.”
Chapter 8 Profit and Loss
Planning for Freedom and Other Essays and Addresses
“Profit and Loss”
Chapter 7 Economic Calculation
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
2. The Nature of Economic Calculation
Every man who, in the course of economic life, takes a choice between the satisfaction of one need as against another, eo ipso makes a judgment of value.
Chapter 6 Emergence of Indirect Exchange
Human Action
The Epistemological Import of Carl Menger’s Theory of the Origin of Money
Carl Menger has not only provided an irrefutable praxeological theory of the origin of money.
Chapter 5 Capitalism: The Market Economy
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
2. Capitalism or Market Economy
In the capitalistic economy the means of production are owned by individuals or associations of individuals, such as corporations.
Thousands of people recently demonstrated in Brussels against free trade deals negotiated by the EU. This happened just days before a meeting of EU trade ministers in Bratislava last month, which was considered the last push to salvage the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the United States. Not only is Europe divided on the deal, but the talks have been extremely secretive.
Many protestors were especially opposed to the secrecy surrounding the trade deals.
Chapter 4 Society, Exchange, and the Division of Labor
Human Action
1. Autistic Exchange and Interpersonal Exchange
Action always is essentially the exchange of one state of affairs for another state of affairs. If the action is performed by an individual without any reference to cooperation with other individuals, we may call it autistic exchange.
Chapter 3 Action in Time
Human Action
1. The Temporal Character of Praxeology
The notion of change implies the notion of temporal sequence. A rigid, eternally immutable universe would be out of time, but it would be dead. The concepts of change and of time are inseparably linked together.