The Viennese tradition
as a workshop.
For twenty years, scholarium has brought together the theory and practice of the Austrian school. Economics, psychology, geopolitics, technology and culture are treated as one reality in which knowledge is dispersed and decisions have consequences.
For twenty years, scholarium has brought together the theory and practice of the Austrian school. Economics, psychology, geopolitics, technology and culture are treated as one reality in which knowledge is dispersed and decisions have consequences.From this educational work have grown a salon, companies and particular places. Knowledge becomes agency for people who build companies and families, steward wealth and decide under entrepreneurial uncertainty.
Scholien. Monthly marginal notes by Rahim Taghizadegan on the present, written in the mode of the Viennese school.
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Scholien remain the free entry point. Salon Seat 144 opens deeper participation.
§What scholarium does
The Austrian school is Vienna's concentration of an older European experience: the practice of trade preceded its theory by millennia. From Salamanca through the Scottish Enlightenment to Vienna, entrepreneurial experience found theoretical form. Economics, psychology, law, money and culture became one reality in which decisions have consequences and knowledge is dispersed.
Its applications are concrete. Bitcoin becomes intelligible through Menger's theory of the origin of money. A choice of location grows more precise with Hayek's work on dispersed knowledge. Mises' praxeology tests every situation against its actual conditions. Kirzner described what entrepreneurs do as a process of discovery.
Theory worth anything matures through real decisions: in our own companies, the allocation of our own wealth, publishing and the building of places. Technology is capital in this view: a productive detour that binds knowledge into tools and extends the reach of human action. Whoever enters the salon enters this conversation with their own judgement and responsibility.
Information today is abundant and therefore cheap. What counts is selection and compression, connection and sequence: understanding reality without ideology or utopia, then acting on it soberly and entrepreneurially.
The shared salon.
The salon was never merely an event. In the Viennese tradition, it was an intimate room where theory, practice and culture met: conversation among people who had something to say and could listen to one another.
Today it connects a dispersed circle across Vienna, Zug, Istria, Madeira and Nova Scotia. Salon Seat 144 is the one-time inscription into the salon limited to 144 seats; the full offer and its conditions have their own page.
144 seats · CHF 1,440 once
Discover the salon§ From the workshop
Thought becomes enterprise.
A kontor was a node: residence, warehouse, legal space and connection to a network larger than the place in which it stood.
scholarium is a learning kontor in this sense. From the educational work emerge entrepreneurial capabilities for companies, decisions about wealth, technology and particular places.
§Rahim Taghizadegan
Rahim Taghizadegan is an Austrian economist, physicist, author and entrepreneur based in Zug. A student of Roland Baader and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, he has taught the Austrian school at universities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein and has worked on Bitcoin in teaching and publishing since 2011.
What is unusual is the alignment of teaching and practice: he teaches entrepreneurship as an entrepreneur, allocates his own capital and helps build the companies and places about which others merely speak.
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