Calculation and Knowledge

Creating a functioning and sustainable local economy is much more time consuming and complicated than sprucing up a few buildings to look good on a TV show.

The Soviet Union in 1991 was dissolved. Murray Rothbard explains how socialism and central planning led to the economic collapse.

Presented at Mises University 2021.

The goods created by automation—and the labor freed up by it—become inputs for industries downstream.

Successful entrepreneurial leaders play a central role in empowering employees to use their localized knowledge.

Contra Marx, Mises understood that human desires and needs are not determined merely by biology. 

Dr. Bylund and Jeff Deist discuss Covid and government responses against the backdrop of ripple effects, Say's law, "market failure," and the inability of bureaucrats to make rational tradeoffs.

Contra Marx, Mises understood that human desires and needs are not determined merely by biology. 

During the boom phase of the business cycle, the economy shifts to a more risky position as the result of entrepreneurs’ profit targeting. The duration can be used to quantify this risk and to determine the discount rate for calculating the project's present value.

Why don't corporations just get bigger and bigger until they take over the whole economy? Unlike states, firms aren't necessarily better off as they get bigger.