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1. Producing Prosperity

   An Inquiry into the Operation of the Market Process

   By Randall Holcombe

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   The substantial prosperity that characterizes market economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century is relatively recent in human history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, economic progress was so slow that people would not have been able to recognize it in their lifetimes, whereas today...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Constitution of Liberty in the Open Economy

   By Luder Gerken

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   In these heady days of ever increasing globalization it has become vital to question whether governments should be allowed to protect domestic enterprises from foreign competitors.This book represents a first attempt to provide a new conceptual basis for discussing the cases in which free trade...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Understanding the Culture of Markets

   By Virgil Storr

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   How does culture impact economic life? Is culture like a ball and chain that actors must lug around as they pursue their material interests? Or, is culture like a tool-kit from which entrepreneurs can draw resources to aid them in their efforts? Or, is being immersed in a culture like wearing a...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Markets, Morals, and Policy-Making

   A New Defence of Free-Market Economics

   By Enrico Colombatto

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Free-market economics has attempted to combine efficiency and freedom by emphasizing the need for neutral rules and meta-rules. These efforts have only been partly successful, for they have failed to address the deeper, normative arguments justifying – and limiting – coercion. This failure has thus...

   Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge
5. Risk and Business Cycles

   New and Old Austrian Perspectives

   By Tyler Cowen

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Risk and Business Cycles examines the causes of business cycles, a perennial topic of interest within economics. The author argues the case for the revival of an important role for monetary causes in business cycle theory, which challenges the current trend towards favouring purely real theories....

   Published July 14th 2010 by Routledge
6. Mind, Society, and Human Action

   Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy

   By Richard Wagner

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate. Over the major part of the 20th century, however, economists mostly turned away from...

   Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge
7. Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress

   By Randall Holcombe

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This new book from Randall Holcombe begins by identifying areas in which evolutionary and Austrian approaches differ from the...

   Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
8. Microfoundations and Macroeconomics

   An Austrian Perspective

   By Steven Horwitz

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   In the past, Austrian economics has been seen as almost exclusively focused on microeconomics. Here,Steven Horwitz constructs a systematic presentation of what Austrian macroeconomics would look like. This original and highly accessible work will be of great value and interest to professional...

   Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
9. Liberalism against Liberalism

   Theoretical Analysis of the Works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker

   By Javier Aranzadi

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents of the Chicago School and the last two of the...

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Theory of Dynamic Efficiency

    By Jesús Huerta De Soto

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    This book gathers a collection of English language essays by Jesús Huerta de Soto over the past ten years, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions. The author’s...

    Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge