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Hi, Hunter Hastings here - I'm an economist by education, a marketer in my professional track, a venture capitalist in my current business life, an Individualist in philosophy, and a passionate supporter of entrepreneurship in whatever form I can practice it, support it and advance it.

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103. Steven Phelan: Embrace Complexity, Pursue Continuous Innovation, Don’t Waste Time on Planning

February 2, 2021 /0 Comments/in Economics for Business Podcast /by Hunter Hastings

A rapidly advancing strand of theory has enabled great advances in the understanding of complex adaptive systems. Austrian economics is quintessential complexity theory; Austrians recognize that economic systems exhibit emergent outcomes as a result of the myriad interactions of consumers and businesses, value propositions and value perceptions, technologies and channels, and the innumerable transactions and […]

Take A Job? No, Make A Job.

February 1, 2021 /0 Comments/in Articles /by Hunter Hastings

The institutional and cultural guidelines today for personal and family income tell us to take a job. The government publishes jobs data as a key indicator of the health of the economy. They publish the inverse set of data – unemployment statistics – for the opposite reason, an indicator of the unhealthy state of the […]

102. Dale Caldwell: Entrepreneur Zones Will Drive Accelerated Growth For Cities

January 26, 2021 /0 Comments/in Economics for Business Podcast /by Hunter Hastings

Can entrepreneurship be a collaborative undertaking across multiple firms? Entrepreneur Zones are an idea from Dale Caldwell to boost the economic performance of cities, and represent one form of collaborative entrepreneurship. The business platform the Mises Institute is building — Economics For Business — represents another: an online collaboration of entrepreneurs to share knowledge, experience, and practices, while competing individually to be the best at serving customers.

Treating Consumers As Means Not Ends Is A Fatal Business Model Flaw.

January 20, 2021 /0 Comments/in Articles /by Hunter Hastings

Recently, some of the Big Tech companies of Silicon Value have been caught in anti-market behavior. They have censored or even banned some of their own consumers. Since value lies in consumer experience, and since capital is the net present value of future claims to revenue streams from consumers, these firms are destroying value and […]

101. Per Bylund: Silicon Valley Is Bad At Entrepreneurship.

January 20, 2021 /0 Comments/in Economics for Business Podcast /by Hunter Hastings

Our goal at Economics For Business is to help entrepreneurs and their businesses succeed. Per Bylund and Hunter Hastings discuss the true implications of the current furor over the anti-market behavior of some of the Big Tech companies of Silicon Valley. They are destroying value and consuming capital.

100. Jeff Deist: Animating Economics to Serve Real People and Real Businesses

January 12, 2021 /0 Comments/in Economics for Business Podcast /by Hunter Hastings

Economics is treated by many as an arid field of mathematical modeling. Human beings are treated as data in the model, almost the way physics regards atoms and molecules. This approach to economics doesn’t help people much; it doesn’t help us understand the world, and isn’t helping us build a better future.