An Austrian Theory of Environmental Economics
Environmental economics is steeped in standard neoclassical theories of efficiency and Pigouvian welfare economics. That's a problem.
Environmental economics is steeped in standard neoclassical theories of efficiency and Pigouvian welfare economics. That's a problem.
Utilitarianism assumes that morality—the good—is purely subjective to each individual. It also assumes that these subjective desires can be added, subtracted, and weighed across the various individuals in society.
That man acts and that the future is uncertain are by no means two independent matters. They are only two different modes of establishing one thing.
In our time the most powerful theocratic parties are opposed to the world's great religions. Today's theocrats believe they alone can plan society and that they are enlightened.
Popular economic wisdom says central banks can counter harmful effects of inflation by raising interest rates. Unfortunately, such moves carry their own forms of misallocation of resources and capital.
Jordan Peterson is turning his eye toward Austrian economics. Unlike the many conservatives who see free market advocacy as some sort of "dangerous fundamentalism," Peterson seems to get it.
The typical mainstream economic view of interest rates ignores an important factor: individual time preferences.
Arguments for equal pay are popular in our body politic, but what happens if some of those arguments are based upon the faulty logic of the labor theory of value?
Austrian economics begins with logical deductions made from what we know about human action, not data sets that are subject to change.
"Let's celebrate the prodigious life of Lu Mises, a life in which he fused crowning insight on how the world tackles the law of scarcity, with lifelong moral courage."