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Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

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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.

32 Series Titles


Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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