The Purpose Of Production And The Economy: A Criticism Of Pronatalist Economics
June 24, 2025
One of the main draws of the Austrian School of economics, at least for me, is that all its insights are grounded in real happenings; the school’s entire body of economic literature is meant to explain tangible things that actually happen.
Whereas other schools of economics focus on some ethereal monolith known as “the economy”—a mystical being whose forces and wiles can only be divined through Cartesian coordinate planes—the Austrians study the discrete actions taken by living people that form the economy.
