Theme: Incentives

  • What Are Some Criticisms Of The Austrian School Of Economic Thought?

    It depends upon which Austrian school you’re asking about.

    1) the Christian Austrians, including Menger and the Marginalists whose work has been fully integrated into mainstream economics with the exception of their certainty of the influence of the business cycle.

    or

    2) the Jewish Austrians, including Mises alone, and perhaps Rothbard, who stumbled upon Operationalism in economics, but instead of comprehending that a truthful proposition must be BOTH externally correspondent, and existentially possible to construct via a series of rationally testable operations, attempted to somehow conflate Jewish Law, and Mathematical Logic and instead, created the pseudoscience of ‘praxeology’ under which they claim all economics must be produced by a sequence of operations.

    This left Mises respected but a laughing stock without a position. Unfortunately he did not understand what he had stumbled upon, and he could have reformed economics. But he failed. He failed because he was committed to his dogma, and committed to his error.

    The only reason we discuss mises at all is because the Mises Institute copied the techniques of the marxists of (a) heaping undue praise, (b) creating long lists of straw man arguments by which to criticize empirical science but never producing anything more than amateurish justificationary pseudo-scientific arguments, (c) using the new medium of the internet as an inexpensive propaganda device, (d) marketing to the well intentioned fools (the young males), and entrepreneurs who, because of their success in the market, overrate their comprehension of political economy.

    So why doesn’t anyone take ‘Austrian Economics’ seriously? They do. They take mengerian economics seriously: marginalism. They take the austrian project seriously: an attempt to develop a social science of political economy by which we remove obstacles to cooperation – NOT as the chicago school has done, a science of MONETARY economy, to insure against shocks to cooperation, and NOT as the saltwater (Jewish Left) school has done, which is a science of the maximum interference that is possible such that the maximum consumption is pursued, so that the maximum capital is moving, and the minimum capital is held in reserve against the most severe of shocks.

    If you understand these few paragraphs you know more about the problems of the economics profession than most professors will ever dream of.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-criticisms-of-the-Austrian-school-of-economic-thought

  • Except that communism cannot exist for competitive, incentive, and calculative r

    Except that communism cannot exist for competitive, incentive, and calculative reasons, and therefore the law of value never stops. Ever.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 17:46:16 UTC

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  • I don’t imply anything. I merely state that humans demonstrate marginal choice b

    I don’t imply anything. I merely state that humans demonstrate marginal choice behavior as the scarcity of any capital increases.


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  • I don’t know what you’re trying to argue, a straw man? I don’t rely on anything

    I don’t know what you’re trying to argue, a straw man? I don’t rely on anything other than the profitability of markets over serfdom/slavery


    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 17:19:55 UTC

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  • I don’t state that they result in the best products, only that profiting from th

    I don’t state that they result in the best products, only that profiting from the creation of markets is superior to profiting from slavery.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 17:19:06 UTC

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  • I don’t depend on perfect competition whatsoever. I merely state that competitio

    I don’t depend on perfect competition whatsoever. I merely state that competition exists – starting with survival.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 17:18:01 UTC

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  • Incalculable absent a divisor, decidable calculation is not possible, requiring

    Incalculable absent a divisor, decidable calculation is not possible, requiring discretion, requiring authority, making possible ‘rents’.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 16:38:11 UTC

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  • By a division of labor we produce more than we can alone. By voluntary exchange

    By a division of labor we produce more than we can alone. By voluntary exchange we determine if we have been productive or consumptive.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 14:34:49 UTC

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  • THERE IS NO EXPLOITATION – JUST FARMING It is simply more profitable to construc

    THERE IS NO EXPLOITATION – JUST FARMING

    It is simply more profitable to construct markets than it is serfdom and slavery.

    But make no mistake about it.

    You are ruled for profit.

    The lies of Religion.

    The forces of Law.

    The hazard of Credit.

    I choose to RULE.

    I choose to RULE by denying rule to others.

    If possible I desire to rule by denying rule to all.

    And by denying rule to all we are left with markets.

    Markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons and polities.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 14:16:00 UTC

  • PROFIT, COST, VALUE, AND THE ONLY REASON NOT TO PREY UPON YOU. I simply state: P

    PROFIT, COST, VALUE, AND THE ONLY REASON NOT TO PREY UPON YOU.

    I simply state: Profit: an objective MEASUREMENT made profitable by the commensurability provided by money and prices.

    I simply state science: Cost: an objective decline in the volume of some form of capital (including time).

    I simply state science: Value: a subjective experience we can only observe via DEMONSTRATE action: participation in voluntary exchange.

    The only way any ‘social’ or ‘common’ property CAN exist is by consent of those capable of defending it from competitors.

    The only reason to engage in consent is that it is more rewarding to engage in such consent than it is to engage in predation or parasitism.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 13:31:00 UTC