Prices Are Not Measurements of Value

Tags: Other Schools of Thought, Prices, Subjectivism

01/02/2025 Michael Njoku

One of the fallacies of modern academic neoclassical economics is that we can take cardinal measures of value. Austrian economists, beginning with Carl Menger, know better.

Original article: Prices Are Not Measurements of Value

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