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In this chapter of Human Action, Mises lays out the boundaries of economic calculation, and explains that within their sphere market prices render all the services needed of them. The tools of economic calculation are inappropriate, though, when people extrapolate into areas outside of the actual market. In particular, economic calculation cannot provide a measure of immutable value, because no such thing exists. The efforts to devise a stable money and to provide a flow of guaranteed income are futile….
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