Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
About the Book Series
A central theme of the books in this series is the importance of understanding and assessing the economy from a perspective broader than the static economics of perfect competition and Pareto optimality. Accordingly, Institutional arrangements are assessed with respect to their ability to promote the discovery and use of knowledge in society.
Hayekian Systems: Research into the Structure of Social Interaction
1st Edition
By William N. Butos, Thomas J. McQuade
November 28, 2024
The central theme in the work of F.A. Hayek was the problem of order in society, and his focus was epistemological: he was concerned with the constraints on knowledge, the problems associated with its distribution, the structures in which it inheres, and the implications of these issues for the ...
Capitalism and Inequality: The Role of State and Market
1st Edition
Edited
By G.P. Manish, Stephen C. Miller
August 01, 2022
Capitalism and Inequality rejects the popular view that attributes the recent surge in inequality to a failure of market institutions. Bringing together new and original research from established scholars, it analyzes the inequality inherent in a free market from an economic and historical ...
Austrian Economics Re-examined: The Economics of Time and Ignorance
1st Edition
By Gerald P O'Driscoll Jnr, Mario Rizzo
November 07, 2016
Austrian Economics Re-examined: The Economics of Time and Ignorance is an expanded version of the 1996 edition of The Economics of Time and Ignorance. This work is a classic statement of the role of subjectivism, radical uncertainty and change through real time in Austrian economics specifically, ...
Capital in Disequilibrium: The Role of Capital in a Changing World
1st Edition
By Peter Lewin
February 29, 2016
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 ...
Dynamics of the Mixed Economy: Toward a Theory of Interventionism
1st Edition
By Sanford Ikeda
October 06, 2015
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 ...
Understanding the Culture of Markets
1st Edition
By Virgil Storr
September 29, 2015
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 ...
Money and Markets: Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager
1st Edition
By Roger Koppl
September 08, 2015
Important and celebrated economist Leland Yeager is one of the architects of the 'Virginia School' of political economy that has produced two Nobel laureates (James Buchanan and Ronald Coase) and the Public Choice movement. A number of top class contributors have here been brought together ...
Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory: The Founding Austrian Vision
1st Edition
By Anthony Endres
June 08, 2015
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 ...
Producing Prosperity: An Inquiry into the Operation of the Market Process
1st Edition
By Randall Holcombe
February 27, 2015
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...
Entrepreneurship and the Market Process: An Enquiry into the Growth of Knowledge
1st Edition
By David A Harper
December 22, 2014
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 ...
Expectations and the Meaning of Institutions: Essays in Economics by Ludwig M. Lachmann
1st Edition
Edited
By Don Lavoie
December 22, 2014
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 ...
Prices and Knowledge: A Market-Process Perspective
1st Edition
By Esteban F. Thomsen
December 22, 2014
The growth of information economics has lead to a substantial re-consideration of the role of prices. Instead of the conventional neo-classical view of prices as straightforward indicators of scarcity, information economics emphasises that prices can be sources from which agents infer information ...