Austrian economics in America : the migration of a tradition

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Austrian economics in America : the migration of a tradition

Karen I. Vaughn

(Historical perspectives on modern economics)

Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-190) and index

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Description

This 1994 book examines the development of the ideas of the new Austrian school from its beginnings in Vienna in the 1870s to the present. It focuses primarily in showing how the coherent theme that emerges from the thought of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig Lachman, Israel Kirzner and a variety of new younger Austrians is an examination of the implications of time and ignorance (or processes and knowledge) for economic theory.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Carl Menger and the foundations of Austrian economics
  • 3. Economic calculation and the rediscovery of Mengerian themes
  • 4. Ludwig von Mises: Austrian economics in America
  • 5. The Austrian revival
  • 6. Defining the Austrian paradigm
  • 7. Market process: the problem of order in Austrian economics
  • 8. Austrian economics: which way forward
  • References
  • Index.

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