MRP as Central Planning
MRP fails for the same reasons Gosplan did: it tries to concentrate in a center knowledge that lives on the shop floor. What Hayek teaches us about the production plan.
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Kanban Is a Price System
Ohno solved on the shop floor the problem Mises and Hayek posed for the whole economy: knowledge cannot be centralized; it has to circulate. Why the kanban card works, where it stops, and what it teaches those who lead.
L'MRP come pianificazione centrale
L’MRP fallisce per le stesse ragioni del Gosplan: pretende di concentrare in un centro una conoscenza che vive nei reparti. Che cosa ci insegna Hayek sul piano di produzione.
Il kanban è un sistema di prezzi
Ohno ha risolto in fabbrica il problema che Mises e Hayek avevano posto all'economia intera: la conoscenza non si centralizza, si fa circolare. Perché il cartellino funziona, dove si ferma, e cosa insegna a chi dirige.
The World Keynes Built: How One Theory Became the Operating System of Every Government, What It Cost, and What Today's Economy Looks Like Through Austrian Eyes
Keynes did not win the argument about theory; he won the argument about consequences, and his conclusions were absorbed into the machinery of every government that was being built anyway — including the negotiation at Bretton Woods that he himself lost, the welfare state and the full-employment commitment, and a synthesis that won rather than the General Theory. This examination then reads today's zombie firms, empty offices, private credit, debt-financed computing build-out and equity valuations through the three tools Mises and Hayek left behind, and states plainly what would have been better and what would have been worse under their system.
The Two Economists: Mises, Hayek and Keynes — What the Austrian School Argued, What Keynes Argued Instead, and Why the Debate Never Ended
In the nineteen thirties Vienna and Cambridge gave two rival answers to the same question — what is an economy, and what should be done about it — and this examination sets out both in their own terms, from Mises on money that is never neutral and the impossibility of calculating without capital goods, to Hayek on dispersed knowledge and the price system as an information technology, to Keynes on an economy that can rest at an equilibrium with willing workers unemployed. It then follows the fight itself, Hayek's review and Keynes's reply and Sraffa on the natural rate, and asks why one side became the language of every government while the other spent decades in the wilderness — and why what actually won was a synthesis, not the General Theory.
The Code Liberation: How AI Makes Software Infinitely Customizable
When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.