Saint Augustine, Proto-Austrian

Tags: History of the Austrian School of Economics, Praxeology

02/28/2023 Connor Mortell

One of the fundamental tenets of Austrian economics is the ordinal value scale. Augustine articulated the idea more than a thousand years before Carl Menger wrote his pathbreaking Principles of Economics.

Original Article: “Saint Augustine, Proto-Austrian”

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