Calculation and Knowledge

Despite the fact that the CDC’s formal name includes the word “Prevention” and that its stated goals include various planning buzzwords, its managing of the COVID-19 response has been an unmitigated disaster.

The 2016 election was an important reminder that most experts were totally wrong in their predictions of what would happen. Now the experts are claiming that freedom and markets must be abandoned based on new guesses about the future.

It is a marvel that imperfect, limited information available to the entrepreneur can be used to produce so much good for society. 

If you've wanted to read Human Action, this is your opportunity to hear it explained by great economists and scholars!

If you've wanted to read Human Action, this is your opportunity to hear it explained by great economists and scholars!

The economy is not primarily about the adjustment of capital investment across industries and firms, but about the determination of which industries and types of production will exist—and who will be involved in this future production.

Economics is not intent upon pronouncing value judgments. It aims at a cognition of the consequences of certain modes of acting.

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In terms of economics, what currently is should be of very little importance: what matters, and that we should seek to understand, is the process that brought it about and that will create what will be in its place.

It is possible to determine in terms of money prices the sum of the income or the wealth of a number of people. But it is nonsensical to reckon national income or national wealth.