Austrian School facts for kids
The Austrian School is a school of economic thought based on the actions of the individual person. It started in late 19th and early 20th century Vienna, Austria. It is referred to as Austrian economics, because the primary economists were Austrian although its followers are from all over the world today.
Followers of the Austrian school criticize central planning, government price controls and other state regulations. They say that it is impossible for government institutions to make comparatively better decisions about production or the prices of goods and services because they do not have the knowledge or flexibility that millions of individual consumers have. Followers of the Austrian school also criticize government inflation of the money supply.
Most economists today are critical of the Austrian School and their rejection of mathematics and statistics.
Important economists of the Austrian School of Economics
- Carl Menger
- Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk
- Ludwig von Mises
- Friedrich Hayek
- Yuri Maltsev
- Murray Rothbard
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Jean-Baptiste Say. The French Liberal School of Political Economy is an intellectual ancestor of Austrian School of Economics.
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Campus of Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama
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Eugen Böhm von Bawerk
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Israel Kirzner
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In Spanish: Escuela austriaca para niños
