Valori e prezzi. La crisi della metafisica riflessa nella crisi del mercato

In the contemporary global society all main forms of social life are re-designed along the lines of market trading and economic calculation has become the basic tool for every kind of human action. This is frequently regarded as an evolution towards a post-metaphysical world that any original metaphysical demand is going to vanish from. Quite the opposite, starting from Kant’s understanding of metaphysics as humans' “natural disposition” and interpreting Ludwig von Mises’ theory of economic calculation as an attempt to overcome the traditional distinction between values and prices, the article intends to show how decisive a metaphysical anthropology can be to correctly understand the project of Neoliberalism, its parabola of the last century and its deep crisis nowadays.