Introduction / Peter Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Virgil Storr -- Exploring and extending the theory of the market process -- Plato's economic genius / Nathan Sawarzky -- Beyond the efficiency of the market : Adam Smith on sympathy and the poor law / Brianne Wolf -- Why be robust? : the...

The theme of this volume is 'New thinking in austrian political economy'. It includes original research by scholars working within Austrian political economy. The contributors draw on insights from Austrian economics shed new light on a range of relevant topics including: the role of culture in...

Violent conflict is a global phenomenon with devastating costs to individuals and their communities. Government experts and policymakers have responded with efforts to reduce violence and make peace. Such efforts are often implemented from the top-down, however, and are consequently limited in...

Social life can take on a variety of forms – some violent, others peaceful. One type of social arrangement that is especially conducive to peace are friendships, that is, relationships based on mutual trust and dependence. The market is one important but often neglected space where we can...

What is the relationship between education and peace? While economists have written about the relationship between education and economic prosperity and about how economic trade and prosperity affect peace, in this paper we highlight a different and more direct connection between education and...

This survey explores the important connection between institutions and entrepreneurship. Institutions consist of the formal and informal "rules of the game." Entrepreneurs act within a context determined by these rules. The rules of the game create payoffs that make certain entrepreneurial...

In this, his final book, Gavin Boyd has brought together a distinguished group of experts on the nature and extent of transatlantic policy coordination and its implication for corporate strategy. This remarkably relevant set of papers offers a discussion on the economic and financial linkage...

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...

As defined by the editors of this book, ‘non-market entrepreneurship’ consists of all forms of entrepreneurship not being undertaken solely for purposes of profit maximization or commercialization, and encompasses entrepreneurial activities such as social enterprise and...