Austrian Economics in America - The Migration of a Tradition

List 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.

Summary

This 1994 book examines the development of the ideas of the new Austrian school from its beginnings 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 others is an examination of the implications of time and ignorance for economic theory.

Product details

• Authors: Vaughn Karen I., Karen I. Vaughn, Karen Iversen Vaughn
• Assisted by: Craufurd Goodwin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.1998
• EAN: 9780521637657
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63765-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Historical Perspectives on Mod
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics