Questions tagged [austrian]

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What is the difference between knowledge and information?

I believe this distinction may have been made by Hayek or some other Austrian.
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What are the known refutations of Mises' Axiom of Human Action?

From Mises' Human Action Human action is purposeful behavior. Or we may say: Action is will put into operation and transformed into an agency, is aiming at ends and goals, is the ego's meaningful response to stimuli and to the conditions of its…
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Strong Austrian arguments against copyright

For many years, I held a strong position against the copyright based on the effects of enforcing copyright on freedom of speach in the internet. However, recently I read Rothbard's Man, Economy, State, where he makes following point: when you…