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Economic behavior, economic freedom, and entrepreneurship
Cebula, Richard J. (ed.); Hall, Joshua C. (ed.);  … - 2015
This collection of chapters comprises timely aspects of two rapidly growing bodies of academic research: entrepreneurship and economic freedom. -- Expert editors add to an important field of research, the economics of entrepreneurship, and explore how institutions influence entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850744
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Austrian economics and the political economy of freedom
Ebeling, Richard M. - 2003
standard -- 6. Classical liberalism and collectivism in the 20th century -- 7. The political myths and economic realities of … liberalism : past, present and future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850824
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Political failure by agreement : learning liberalism and the welfare state
Wegner, Gerhard - 2008
The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author … argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go …. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850868
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Competition, coordination and diversity : from the firm to economic integration
Salin, Pascal - 2015
Competition, or the freedom to enter into a market, contributes greatly to the differentiation of human activities and therefore to economic progress. This fascinating book highlights the similarities between human systems at both the micro and macro level, and demonstrates how competition can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850940
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The rediscovery of classical economics : adaptation, complexity and growth
Simpson, David - 2013
'This book puts human beings back at the heart of the economic process. It shows how this classical, human-centred tradition, stretching from Adam Smith onward, gives us a much better understanding of economic events and what to do about them than the mechanistic, mathematical models of too many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851137
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Wilhelm Röpke's political economy
Gregg, Samuel - 2010
1. Introduction -- 2. Ruin and reform : the crisis of German economic liberalism -- 3. Economics and the economist -- 4 …. Toward a new economic liberalism -- 5. Booms, recessions and business cycles -- 6. After Keynes : full employment, inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851920
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The revival of laissez-faire in American macroeconomic theory : a case study of the pioneers
Kasper, Sherryl Davis - 2002
This book provides the definitive account of this watershed and traces the evolution of laissez-faire using the cases of its proponents, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan and Robert Lucas. By elucidating the pre-analytical framework of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851840
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Thorstein Veblen and the revival of free market capitalism
Knoedler, Janet T. (contributor);  … - 2007
1. The place of science in society : progress, pragmatism, pluralism -- 2. Thorstein Veblen on the origins and meaning of private property -- 3. Capital and the modern corporation -- 4. Pecuniary institutions : their role and effects -- 5. Veblen's missing theory of markets and exchange, or, Can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420051
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International trade and economic growth in open economies : the classical dynamics of Hume, Smith, Ricardo and Malthus
Berdell, John - 2002
In this enlightening book, John Berdell addresses the widely-held belief that classical economics distanced itself from policy issues and public debates regarding the effects of international trade on economic growth in advanced economies. He argues, through a detailed consideration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850822
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The Elgar companion to classical economics
Kurz, Heinz-Dieter (contributor);  … - 1998
This authoritative and comprehensive reference work provides a thorough account of the classical approach to economics. It contains almost two hundred informative short entries in an easily accessible dictionary format on all the significant areas of this school of thought. The companion breaks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851633