Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

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21. Capital in Disequilibrium

    The Role of Capital in a Changing World

    By Peter Lewin

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    Drawing on the work of the Austrian School and its heirs, Capital in Disequilibrium develops a modern, systematic version of capital theory in order to suggest a new approach to the subject of economics. Original and provocative in his reflection, Lewin offers both a new approach and an accessible...

    Published December 16th 1998 by Routledge
22. The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development

    Urban Female Entrepreneurship in Ghana

    By Emily Chamlee-Wright

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    Chalmlee-Wright argues that international aid programmes have often been unsuccessful because they are imported. The economics of the Austrian School provide a far stronger theoretical framework which can introduce cultural analysis into questions of economic development and other market processes....

    Published October 8th 1997 by Routledge
23. Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory

    The Founding Austrian Vision

    By Anthony Endres

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    Carl Menger, Friedrich Wieser and Eugen Bohm-Bawerk are acknowledged as pioneers in the development of neoclassical economics, as well as being recognized as the founders of the Austrian School of Economics. Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory examines their contribution and compares it with the...

    Published January 1st 1997 by Routledge
24. Dynamics of the Mixed Economy

    Toward a Theory of Interventionism

    By Sanford Ikeda

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    Dynamics of the Mixed Economy applies the insights of modern Austrian political economy to examine economic policy in mixed economies. It compares and contrasts standard approaches to the growth of the state (including public choice) with that of modern Austrian political economy; examines in...

    Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge
25. Laissez Faire Banking

    By Kevin Dowd

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    The idea of free (or laissez-faire) banking has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance in recent years. It is a novel idea that challenges much of what many banking scholars still take for granted - that banking is inherently unstable, that the banking system needs a lender of last resort or deposit...

    Published May 29th 1996 by Routledge
26. The Meaning of the Market Process

    Essays in the Development of Modern Austrian Economics

    By Israel M Kirzner

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    Israel Kirzner is the foremost proponent of the modern Austrian theory of the market process. This book offers substantive insights in support of this theory and a new historical interpretation of how the ideas of modern Austrians emerged....

    Published May 8th 1996 by Routledge
27. The Economics of Time and Ignorance

    With a New Introduction, 2nd Edition

    By Gerald P O'Driscoll Jnr, Mario J Rizzo

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    The Economics of Time and Ignorance is one of the seminal works in modern Austrian economics. Its treatment of historical time and of uncertainty helped set the agenda for the remarkable revival of work in the Austrian tradition which has led to an ever wider interest in the once heretical ideas of...

    Published April 17th 1996 by Routledge
28. Entrepreneurship and the Market Process

    An Enquiry into the Growth of Knowledge

    By David A Harper

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    Enterpreneurship is central to the market process, and yet most theories of it fail to tackle the problem of how economic agents learn from their experience. This book redresses this by systematically applying the ideas of Karl Popper. It treats the entrepeneur as a theorist who develops...

    Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge
29. Perfect Competition and the Transformation of Economics

    By Frank Machovec

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    Frank Machovec argues that the assumption of perfect information has done untold economic damage. It has provided the rationale for active state intervention and has obscured the extent to which entrepreneurial activity depends upon the exploitation of asymmetric information....

    Published May 3rd 1995 by Routledge
30. Expectations and the Meaning of Institutions

    Essays in Economics by Ludwig M. Lachmann

    Edited by Don Lavoie

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    This collection of Ludwig Lachmann's essays challenges contemporary attitudes to economics and seeks to apply an interpretive approach to the discipline. The essays, spanning six decades, address a wide range of issues in microeconomics, macroeconomics, methodology and the history of thought. They...

    Published May 25th 1994 by Routledge