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Austrian Economics

Subjective value, entrepreneurship, spontaneous order, and capital-based theories of boom and bust outside the Keynesian toolbox.

Theory Apr 24, 2026

Capital Structure, Not Just Capital: The Austrian View of Busts

Why Austrian business-cycle theory centers on time, heterogeneity, and 'wrong' investment—plus how the story fits (and frictions) against Keynesian demand and Minskyite finance.

History Apr 24, 2026

Böhm-Bawerk's Critique of Marx: Profit, Interest, and Time

A fair-minded tour of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's attack on Marx's exploitation account: why the Austrian economist thought 'surplus value' confused production time with waiting—and what defenders of Marx replied.

Theory Apr 24, 2026

The Knowledge Problem: Hayek and a Society That Thinks in Prices

What Friedrich Hayek meant by dispersed knowledge, why ‘more data’ cannot replace the market, and how his 1945 argument reshaped debates on planning, technology, and democracy.

Theory Apr 24, 2026

Kirzner and Entrepreneurial Discovery: Alertness, Not Just Optimization

How Israel Kirzner reframed the entrepreneur as a discoverer in an open-ended market process—and where his vision complements (and tensions) Mises, Hayek, and neoclassical equilibrium.

Theory Apr 24, 2026

Human Action and Praxeology: Mises’s Case for Economics as a Science of Purposeful Choice

What Ludwig von Mises meant by praxeology, how it connects to marginalism and the calculation debate, and why it still divides readers on method, prediction, and policy.

Policy Analysis Apr 24, 2026

The Modern Austrian 'Policy Toolkit': Sound Money and Regulatory Skepticism

Where the Austrian tradition lands on central banking, gold, rules versus discretion, and the administrative state—stated fairly, without pretending every Austrian agrees on everything.

Theory Apr 13, 2026

Austrian vs. Neoclassical: What Actually Differs?

A no-nonsense comparison of the Austrian and neoclassical traditions — where they agree, where they diverge, and why the distinction still matters for how we think about markets and policy.

Commentary Apr 9, 2026

The Hayek-Keynes Splits: Knowledge, Money, and Order

Beyond the 'markets vs. government' caricature — how Hayek and Keynes diverged on the nature of uncertainty, the role of money, and what holds a market economy together.

History Apr 5, 2026

Marginalism's Austrian Roots: Menger and the Subjective Turn

How the marginal revolution of the 1870s remade economics — and why the Austrian branch, led by Carl Menger, diverged from the mathematical mainstream built by Jevons and Walras.

Commentary Apr 3, 2026

Why Hayek and Keynes Are Both Right (and Both Wrong)

The most famous rivalry in economics was never as simple as 'markets vs. government.' A closer look reveals two thinkers grappling with the same problem from opposite ends — and each capturing a truth the other missed.

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