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Whoa what with the hacker love for Austrian economics?

It like everyone take after Eric S. Raymond, the hacker who extends Austrian(Hayekian to be more exact) economics to the field of software development in his The Cathedral and the Bazaar.



the strong Austrian current you see here is probably due to 2 factors:

1. libertarianism & anarcho-capitalism are fairly popular among programmers

2. the "markets good, government bad" belief is pretty common among business fans

personally I think there's both good and bad, wisdom and horrible flaws, in both of those belief areas




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