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The driving force of the market : essays in Austrian economics

Title: The driving force of the market : essays in Austrian economics / Israel M. Kirzner.
Author: Kirzner, Israel M.
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Description

xii, 295 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Foundations of the market economy

Uniform Title

Foundations of the market economy series.

Subject

Austrian school of economics

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Pt. I. The character of Austrian economics. 1. Entrepreneurial discovery and the competitive market process: an Austrian approach. 2. The subjectivism of Austrian economics. 3. Subjectivism, freedom and economic law -- Pt. II. The market process: some normative perspectives. 4. The limits of the market: the real and the imagined. 5. The ethics of competition. 6. The nature of profits: some economic insights and their ethical implications. 7. Coordination as a criterion for economic "goodness" -- Pt. III. Studies in the Mises-Hayek legacy. 8. Reflections on the Misesian legacy in economics. 9. Mises and his understanding of the capitalist system. 10. Hedgehog or fox? Hayek and the idea of plan-coordination -- Pt. IV. Studies in the theory of competition and entrepreneurship. 11. Competition and the market process: some doctrinal milestones.
12. The driving force of the market: the idea of "competition" in contemporary economic theory and in the Austrian theory of the market process. 13. Creativity and/or alertness: a reconsideration of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur. 14. Rationality, entrepreneurship, and economic "imperialism" App. 1. Ludwig von Mises -- App. 2. Friedrich A. von Hayek -- App. 3. Ludwig M. Lachmann.

ISBN

0415228239 (hc.)

LCCN

99056937

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Columbia University Libraries