The Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics provides an in-depth treatment of Friedrich August von Hayek's economic thought from his technical economics of the 1920s and 1930s to his broader views on the spontaneous order of a free society. Taken together, the chapters show evidence both of...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Ein Vergleich von Freiburger und Österreichischer Schule -- 3. Schumpeter - Unternehmertheorie und Konjunkturablauf sowie die Frage nach Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie -- 4. Milton Friedman - Freiheit und das Wachstum der...

In dem so geschichtsträchtigen Jahr 1848 erschienen John Stuart Mills "Principles of Political Economy - with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy". Die 150. Wiederkehr dieses Ereignisses von nachhaltigem Einfluß auf das ökonomische, ja auf das gesellschaftspolitische Denken in...

Leading scholars consider Austrian economics from several perspectives such as characteristic themes of entrepreneurship and uncertainty, scientific methods such as mathematical complexity theory and experimental economics, and historical contexts such as pre-war Vienna and post-war France....

A carefully curated selection of new and classic essays by Scottish Enlightenment expert Christopher J. BerryThis collection of essays by Christopher J. Berry spans several decades and multiple shifts across Scottish Enlightenment, Hume and Smith studies. It brings together classic essays –...

Der symbolistische Dichter Stefan George sammelte nach der Jahrhundertwende einen Kreis von Dichtern und Intellektuellen um sich, mit denen er arbeitete und lebte, und die er in ihrer wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit unterstützte. Es überrascht zunächst, dass neben Literaturwissenschaftlern wie...

Verlagsinfo: "Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of classical liberalism. Hayek's erudite arguments in support of individualism and the market...

"The intellectual response to the Great Depression is often portrayed as a battle between the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. Yet both the Austrian and the Keynesian interpretations of the Depression were incomplete. Austrians could explain how a country might get into a...