link: http://ift.tt/1IWfZIZ
Hot And Trending...
Trending
- Anyone dumb enough not to use every legal deduction to minimize his income tax liability is not smart enough to be president!
- March report "How Revolutions, Wars and Plagues are Harbingers of 'Great Changes' in Societies and in Economics" published. http://bit.ly/2y4LJZQ
- Keynesian Hedge Fund Manager Ray Dalio Agrees with Peter Schiff on Fed's Next Move @SchiffGold https://t.co/96aepOXtlI
- UBS Says It's Time to 'Warm Up' to Gold @SchiffGold http://t.co/ZBtHRx7WS5
- Debate-Inequality: Should We Care?
- In quoting Adams about the failures of democracy #Romney forgot to mention that America was founded as a Republic for those very reasons!
- My speech at The Jackson Hole Summit last month. @SchiffGold http://t.co/AVPdZNaY5x
- U.S. wages rose by just .2% in the 2nd quarter, the weakest growth since 1982, shocking markets that had expected a rise of .6%.
- What American would hire an accountant, then ignore his advice to utilize legal deductions, and pay more income taxes then are legally owed?
- By not answering the question, #Clinton avoided stating whether the Constitution means what it says, or what justices pretend it says.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
What can a subjectivist say makes free markets preferable?
When I ask Austrians what makes markets desirable, I often hear the answer the line about markets "allocating goods to their highest-valued use." But any consistent subjectivist knows that we can't make interpersonal comparisons of utility/value, which means there is no "highest-valued use." What, then, can we say markets do or tend to do that makes them desirable to alternatives? We might say that markets make best use of dispersed and inarticulate knowledge, but what does this mean as a result? What general statement can we say about the markets' outcomes that is consistent when the school's foundational subjective theory of value. In short, my question is: What can an Austrian say markets do? Why choose markets?