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Austrian economics and Bitcoin

A source-led guide to Menger, Mises, Hayek, subjective value, praxeology, capital, monetary theory and their relevance—and limits—for Bitcoin.

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01What this field explains

Austrian economics offers tools for analysing value, time, capital, knowledge and monetary institutions. It is influential in Bitcoin culture, but it is not identical with Bitcoin and does not make every pro-Bitcoin claim true. Read the original thinkers, distinguish schools and debates, and compare economic reasoning with verifiable protocol rules.

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Austrian economics · MENGER

Carl Menger

Founder of the Austrian School whose 1871 Principles developed subjective value and marginal utility.

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Austrian economics · SVT

Subjective theory of value

Value arises from how acting people rank goods for their purposes, not from labor or material embedded in them.

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Austrian economics · PRAX

Praxeology

The deductive study of purposeful human action, used by Mises as the methodological core of economics.

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Austrian economics · ECALC

Economic calculation

Using market prices to compare heterogeneous inputs, expected outputs and alternative plans in a common monetary denominator.

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Austrian economics · MISES

Ludwig von Mises

Economist who systematized praxeology, monetary theory, business-cycle theory and the socialist calculation critique.

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Austrian economics · HAYEK

Friedrich A. Hayek

Nobel-winning economist associated with dispersed knowledge, spontaneous order, business cycles and competing money.

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