Economic Calculation

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Accountancy is not perfect. The precision of its statements is only illusory. The valuations of goods and rights with which it deals are always based on estimates depending on more or less uncertain and unknown factors.	The Theory of Money and Credit	p. 234	Economic Calculation
Admittedly, monetary calculation has its inconveniences and serious defects, but we have certainly nothing better to put in its place, and for the practical purposes of life monetary calculation as it exists under a sound monetary system always suffices.	Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth	p. 25	Economic Calculation
Economic calculation can only take place by means of money prices established in the market for production goods in a society resting on private property in the means of production.	Socialism	p. 123	Economic Calculation
Economic calculation makes it possible for business to adjust production to the demands of the consumers.	Bureaucracy	p. 28	Economic Calculation
Monetary calculation and cost accounting constitute the most important intellectual tool of the capitalist entrepreneur, and it was no one less than Goethe who pronounced the system of double-entry bookkeeping one of the finest inventions of the human mind.	Liberalism	p. 97	Economic Calculation
Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading, and not an act of measuring.	Epistemological Problems of Economics	p. 160	Economic Calculation
The elaborate methods of modern bookkeeping, accountancy, and business statistics provide the enterpriser with a faithful image of all his operations. He is in a position to learn how successful or unsuccessful every one of his transactions was.	Bureaucracy	p. 32	Economic Calculation
The endeavors to expand the quantity of money in circulation either in order to increase the governments capacity to spend or in order to bring about a temporary lowering of the rate of interest disintegrate all currency matters and derange economic calculation.	Human Action	p. 225; p. 224	Economic Calculation
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.	Human Action	p. 225; pp. 223-24	Economic Calculation
Without the aid of monetary calculation, bookkeeping, and the computation of profit and loss in terms of money, technology would have had to confine itself to the simplest, and therefore the least productive, methods.	Epistemological Problems of Economics	p. 157	Economic Calculation

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