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The Austrian economic way of thinking

Value is subjective (personal). Individuals apply means (action) to their ends, according to ideas. From this, social phenomena (language, prices, money, order) emerge. More info: article, video

Feel free to discuss, criticize, and expand Austrian economic thought in method and application, as a social movement, and also the sciences and ideas that are related to it.


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Recommended Reading

INTRODUCTION TO AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS

Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt

What Has Government Done With Our Money- Murray Rothbard

I, Pencil - Leonard Read

Handbook on Contemporary Austrian Economics - Peter Boettke

Ten Great Economic Myths - Murray Rothbard

PRINCIPLES

Principles of Economics - Carl Menger

Capital and Interest - Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Human Action - Ludwig von Mises

Man, Economy, and State w/ Power and Market - Murray Rothbard

Individualism and Economic Order - F.A. Hayek

Capitalism - George Reisman

Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General) - Richard Cantillon

Natural Value - Friedrich von Wieser

Lectures on Political Economy - Knut Wicksell Volume 1 and Volume 2

METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY

Epistemological Problems of Economics - Ludwig von Mises

The Counter-Revolution of Science - F.A. Hayek

Economic Science and the Austrian Method - Hans Hermann Hoppe

An Essay on The Nature and Significance of Economic Science - Lionel Robbins

The Economic Point of View - Israel Kirzner

Theory and History - Ludwig von Mises

Praxeology and Understanding - George Selgin

The Pretense of Knowledge - F.A. Hayek

Economics and Knowledge - F.A. Hayek

Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory - James Buchanan

Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations - Roger Koppl

The Empirics of Austrian Economics - Steve Horwitz

HISTORY OF THOUGHT

The Making of Modern Economics - Mark Skousen

Economic Thought Before Adam Smith (Volume 1) - Murray Rothbard

Classical Economics (Volume 2) - Murray Rothbard

History of Economic Analysis - Joseph Schumpeter

A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures - Lionel Robbins

ECONOMIC HISTORY

America’s Great Depression - Murray Rothbard

A History of Money and Banking in the United States - Murray Rothbard

The Great Depression - Lionel Robbins

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal - Robert Murphy

Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Supply of Money - Douglas E. French

The Transformation of the American Economy 1865-1914 - Robert Higgs

The Panic of 1819 - Murray Rothbard

The Forgotten Depression - James Grant

MONETARY THEORY

Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective - Steve Horwitz

Money: Sound and Unsound - Joe Salerno

The Theory of Money and Credit - Ludwig Von Mises

Less Than Zero - George Selgin

The Origins of Money - Carl Menger

The Mystery of Banking - Murray Rothbard

Denationalisation of Money - F.A. Hayek

Choice in Currency - F.A. Hayek

The Ethics of Money Production - Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar - Murray Rothbard

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The Labor and Capital Share of Net Income Have Remained Consistent Over Time

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2024/09/01
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Learning that the “Inflation” sub is more like “price gouging”

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European socialism, subsidized by the US taxpayer

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What if the only tax was a land tax? Every square foot of land you own costs a cent per year in taxes.

People would be disincentivized to own land, which means most of it would be government owned and probably largely unused. Cities would be pushed vertically much more, and people would tend to live more densely.

Rent prices might go up a bit.

There's a risk that warehouses and other companies that require a lot of land might be pushed out of the US, but considering there's probably more taxes elsewhere this may or may not happen.

Food prices, especially meat, would skyrocket. This would push everyone to land-efficient foods (probably vegetarian stuff).

There would be far fewer private parks, since it would be much more difficult to account for the annual cost of just owning the land.

Any land-intensive resource (e.g. lumber) would increase in price.

The simplicity would be massively reduce the costs needed to run the IRS, simplify doing your taxes, and reduce opportunities for tax evasion.

Land would become a relatively poor storage of wealth.

Government would probably cut a lot of backroom deals offering use of land without owning it.

The value of land would decrease, and you'd often find cases of people unable to sell their land, while also being unable to pay the tax on it.

Farmers and such would pay the most taxes.

Any other effects that you guys can think of? Are any of the ones I listed incorrect or misguided?

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2024/09/01
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Hayek

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Easy to see why Mises liked Rand's work

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Politicians have destroyed the economy by cherry picking half Keynes policies that suit them and ignoring the rest that don't, but he was still fundamentally wrong

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Economic illiteracy is high on reddit smh

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Keynesian economics is simply bad economics

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- Milton Friedman

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Of course Kamala can lower the cost of housing. Her party in San Francisco has done a great job for decades, hasn't it...? /s

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Are there any Austrian economists who are leftist?

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How does austrian economics deal with negative externalities like pollution and air quality?

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Kroger Executive Admits Company Gouged Prices Above Inflation

For everyone in the sub claiming this didn't exist.
Kroger Executive Admits Company Gouged Prices Above Inflation

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What's in a Name

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If America comprised of 10,000 Liechtensteins, do you think that a Federal Reserve would be able to operate? In fact, wouldn't such a realm be forced to adopt hard money out of necessity?

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2024/08/28
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Frederic Bastiat on the real cost of State Intervention

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2024/08/28
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Austrian Economics?

More like Autistrian Economics, amirite? 🥁

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2024/08/28
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Why is this sub named this way?

I am from Austria and joined this sub thinking it is about the Austrian Economy, only to realize it’s exclusive to America.

Why not name it American_economics?

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Starlink to Provide Free Global Distress Calls

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Agree or disagree? this is the essence if liberty and probably the best explanation ive seen.

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its all relevant... decreasing prices doesnt mean they wouldnt have decreased even more without the govt intervention

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