Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On June 12, 2012 @ 8:40 am In Competition,Complexity & Emergence,Economics,Hayek | Comments Disabled
… is from page 164 of the late Don Lavoie’s insightful 1985 book Rivalry and Central Planning [1]:
[C]osts depend on expectations of future conditions and on the plans of competitors for alternative uses of the factors in question. In other words, it is only the context of a rivalrous struggle among different owners to employ factors in a variety of ways that gives any concrete meaning to “costs.”
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