Why is the price fucking important?

If economic accounting fails, it is not good money to objectively evaluate and compare monetary prices and values of goods and services. Possible problems: "over- or undervaluation" of assets, uncertainty in planning.

Prices are an accidental phenomenon. They are accidental in that they are the unintended result of an economic exchange based on subjective valuations.

(Menger)

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"The price system is a mechanism for communicating information. The information it communicates is information about the scarcity of goods." - Friedrich Hayek