used as a means of rescuing oneself from physical violence. Second, they are very marketable because they can be distributed in any denomination (divisibility). Third, to pay a tax always takes into account the probability of being punished for the failure to pay. This probability in turn, depends on various factors influencing the disturbances could considerably change the subjective valuations of this money’s market value. These phenomena, along with inflation, could be an additional source of
is not primarily about depressions; it is about artificial booms and about the market process that brings them to an end. The theory sheds light on the kind of defined in terms of (1) the nature of the disturbance and (2) the nature of the failure of the economy to adjust to the disturbance. The two “natures” are then
developments, the Great Depression is often cited as a classic example of the failure of a capitalist economy to provide full employment of its resources, by Keynes, was oriented toward prescribing ways in which the classical labor market equilibrium could be attained without relying on the money wage rate
utilities” is completely arbitrary and unjustified. — Murray Rothbard, Power and Market Most so-called public utilities have been granted governmental franchise problem of excessive duplication of distribution systems is attributable to the failure of communities to set a proper price on the use of these scarce resources.
Organization and Public Choice The SCP paradigm asserts that a more concentrated market structure is likely to be more monopolist because, in such a setting, the cost businesses. Government imperialism is a more likely explanation than marketfailure for why these activities are carried out by hundreds of local government
“general theory” is necessary to satisfactorily explain the functioning of the market economy, because the market economy, or any economy based on social base to yield a fiat bank money. Unfortunately, all such schemes are based on a failure by their authors to perceive money as an outgrowth and driving force of
von Mises’s claim that economic calculation is impossible in the absence of free markets has been vindicated by the manifest failure of Soviet communism. Decisively refuted by the facts of economic life, in the economy immediately leads to others. Having produced scarcities in the market with their inflationary policies, the authorities introduce new regulations to
he who lives by prediction is destined to die by prediction. In addition to these failures of Keynesianism and monetarism, the blunders and errors of econometric a cluster of renegade Austrians and ex-Misesians gathered in the Center for Market Processes at George Mason University. The spiritual head of this groupuscule, Lavoie, has reached the pinnacle of having his photograph printed in his magazine Market Process talking to the great Gadamer. Lavoie has organized a Society for
producers as the primary problem of social and economic cooperation and views the market‘s price system as the means by which such dispersed knowledge is ferreted out theory and on socialist calculation, the most important manifestation of this failure is the tendency to attribute to Mises positions originated by Hayek or
for the unions have adopted “might is right!” as a moral principle. A Fundamental Market Principle A principle derived from the classical general theory of value that, scapegoats, “joblessness, discrimination, poor education, poor housing, and the failure of the government to give us our share.” Tucker interprets this as evidence
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