Calculation and Knowledge

The concept of economic calculation is vitally important to understanding our modern economy, yet few people— and especially economists—comprehend that it even exists. 

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The concept of economic calculation is vitally important to understanding our modern economy, yet few people— and especially economists—comprehend that it even exists. 

As we wade through the intricacies of modern society, it becomes all the more imperative to go back to the works of Ludwig von Mises.

A modern socialist economy is impossible.

Socialists never give up trying to prove that socialism can maintain a functioning economy. Some have dragged out a nearly forty year old study as their exhibit A.

Socialists never give up trying to prove that socialism can maintain a functioning economy. Some have dragged out a nearly forty year old study as their exhibit A.

Scott R. Sehon tries to be intellectually honest in his critique of capitalism and his endorsement of socialism, but David Gordon writes that Sehon needs to better know the arguments favoring capitalism.

How do we best understand economics? Per Bylund explains in the introduction to his Chinese version of his book, How to Think about the Economy: A Primer. Economic understanding is now exported to a country with more than a billion people.

While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.