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Early efforts to tame man’s passions going back to antiquity focused on the repression of those passions. As the political and social sciences emerged, the argumentative focus shifted from repressing to harnessing man's passions. This is what produced the discovery of the "invisible hand"...
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Carl Menger published his classic work Principles of Economics in 1871, that work is the founding text of what came … known as the “Austrian School of Economics”. That label has now been used to describe a historical school of thought, as …
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remained dominant in mainstream economics despite recurrent policy failures, contradictory theories and inconclusive revisions … of both theories and policies. We identify a relationship of ‘epistemic entanglement’ between economics as a discipline …
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a central role in communicating the ideas of classical or ‘orthodox’ economics to the general public. He occupied a … a literary critic and economist – and his influence extended to the discipline of economics where his work commanded the …-selling book, Economics in One Lesson, in public speeches, and numerous appearances on TV and radio, Hazlitt offered economic …
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writings, speeches, and appearances on TV and radio, but sought to contribute to the specialized disciplines of economics and … in the US as a public intellectual attempting to contribute to scientific economics consists of not just pointing to his … importantly for our purposes to the attention his written work commanded in the specialized professional journals in economics and …
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Teaching Austrian economics to graduate students is an important part of spreading the ideas of Austrian economics … economics but also to train them to become productive scholars within the profession. Students must learn to follow their … throughout the profession. In the classroom, it is important for graduate students to not only master the ideas of Austrian …
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