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.
Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
1st Edition
By David A Harper
November 07, 2007
This well-written book is the first to deal with entrepreneurship in all its aspects. It considers the economic, psychological, political, legal and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship from a market-process perspective. David A Harper has produced a volume that analyses why some people are ...
Markets, Information and Communication: Austrian Perspectives on the Internet Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack Birner, Pierre Garrouste
December 09, 2003
The internet bubble which peaked in size in 2000 is now well and truly burst. As with all bubbles, there are varying explanations for its occurrence, but the hype which surrounds the internet has shouldered a lot of the blame. There is however, no doubt that the internet has significantly changed ...
Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy
1st Edition
By Peter J Boettke
January 22, 2001
This collection of essays from one of the major Austrian economists working in the world today brings together in one place some of his key writings on a variety of economic issues....
Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure
1st Edition
By Roger W Garrison
November 30, 2000
Time and Money argues persuasively that the troubles which characterise modern capital-intensive economies, particularly the episodes of boom and bust, may best be analysed with the aid of a capital-based macroeconomics. The primary focus of this text is the intertemporal structure of capital, an ...
An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm
1st Edition
By Frederic Sautet
August 09, 2000
This original, provocative work makes a thorough and comprehensive enquiry into the relationship that exists between firms and markets, with separate, in-depth examinations of both the existence and inner organisation of the firm. Sautet develops an accomplished and convincing theory that ...
Laissez Faire Banking
1st Edition
By Kevin Dowd
July 02, 1996
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 ...
The Meaning of the Market Process: Essays in the Development of Modern Austrian Economics
1st Edition
By Israel M Kirzner
June 04, 1996
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....
The Economics of Time and Ignorance: With a New Introduction
2nd Edition
By Gerald P O'Driscoll Jnr, Mario J Rizzo
May 14, 1996
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...