Mises University 2017

Praxeology...

All action is rational ~ Mises

OoOo! Wine's on special! ~ Suzanimal

I went to dinner at the Brazilian steakhouse with friends last night and was showing off my praxeology. Seriously, I was thinking about this at dinner. They had a bottle of wine on special for 30.00 and I looked around the restaurant and noticed that everyone drinking wine had that brand on their table. I'm not sure my girlfriend got it, though. She was trying be judgy. Praexology doesn't judge, sista.:cool:

Lowering the price, all things being equal of a good, will result in an increase of the quantity demanded of the good.~ David Gordon

@17:07 in the lecture




The wine was terrible, btw. I've noticed some of the really bad (or good - I don't really know the difference) wines stains your teeth. I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom and I looked like a kid who had been drinking purple Kool Aid all day. Hell, my $3 hobo wine doesn't even wreck my grill like that.

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I've also been thinking about @10:54 in the video. I would travel 20 minutes to get 50.00 off anything but I get what he's saying. If he made it a smaller amount, say 5.00, it would definitely apply to me. For example, I wouldn't travel 20 minutes to get 5.00 off an ipod but I would (and have) to get 5.00 off a bag of socks. They were the good socks, though and they rarely go on sale.

^^^That's behavioral economics. Which, as David Gordon pointed out, doesn't affect Mises statement that action is rational. I'm only commenting because I just got to thinking about the scenario he presented. I ran errands on Tuesday and was thinking about how far I'd drive to save 50.00 on something. A lot depended on it, btw. Like, the cost of gas, traffic, how badly I needed the item, how busy I am, how strapped for cash I am at the moment...
 
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NOTE: Audio files (mp3 format) are now available for almost all the sessions from this year. A few still remain to be published.

See the first post in this thread for links.
 


If I can, I prefer to listen to these in order and I have the time this afternoon to catch up. I had to laugh @3:15 because I'd be dead too.:D I also like his hufftada. That's what I call the little patch of lip hair he's sporting.

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This guy's a really fast talker. He needs to lay off the caffeine.

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Didn't learn anything new but he was entertaining. :)
 
From Riches to Rags: A Journey Through the Venezuelan Institutions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARUbwT7rwjk





RELATED:

Mises Weekends: Venezuela on the Brink (with Luis Cirocco and Rafael Acevedo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7E57aCD37A



Audio (mp3): Mises Weekends: Venezuela on the Brink

FROM: https://mises.org/library/venezuela-brink
Venezuela on the Brink

Our guests are Luis Cirocco and Dr. Rafael Acevedo, two Venezuelans who attended Mises University last week. Their report from that troubled country is chilling and depressing: food shortages, a lack of medical care and prescription drugs, soldiers and police running black markets, and an entrenched elite made rich after decades of crony socialism under Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. Oil prices remain very low, and the country's economy is so bad that civil war looms.

But our guests remind us that the opposition, pushed by the US CIA, is hardly better - "socialist lite," as they term it. Intellectuals in Venezuelan universities, many of them (badly) trained at Ivy League social science departments, offer nothing more than support for price controls and currency pegs. Horrific hyperinflation is the result.

What Venezuela needs is a wholesale intellectual revolution, toward markets and away from deeply ingrained socialism. Listen to this interview and better understand just how quickly Venezuela is unraveling - and how it could happen here.

See also "Hugo Chávez Against the Backdrop of Venezuelan Economic and Political History" (PDF) by Hugo J. Faria (The Independent Review, Spring 2008).
 
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