Hi, I just made this account, though i've been reading Austrian Economics for a while. I am writing a research paper on the Origin of an Economy. I'd like to know if anyone in the Austrian Tradition has written anything about the emergence of an economy or the origin of an economy. Anything like that. I would be Hayek or Mises would have something but I don't know how to find it.
Mises' Regression Theorem of Money explains how Money comes into use. It turns primitive barter into capitalistic economies featuring economic calculation.
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
From my understanding, Native Americans had something along the lines of 'property rights'.
Do you mean the origin of economic theory or some specific economic practice, like exchange?
Some economic practices, like trying to achieve ends, are postulated to be innate in humans by AE.
Yeah, I know about that from reading MES. Are there any more about, maybe, the emergence of an economy from a small civilization?
Yeah, I agree that achieving ends is innate. But do you know if Hayek or anyone wrote about maybe a historical aspect of it? I'd imagine Rothbard has written some historical analysis of the first economy but I haven't found any yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_economic_thought