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In this paper, we analyse Hayek’s views on endogenous preferences. Perhaps surprisingly in the light of his remarks that economists ought to take people’s preferences as given, there are several places in Hayek’s economics and political economy where preference endogeneity plays a...
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of economic innovation. Over recent decades the language and concepts of innovation theory has broadened to non … institutional character. Social innovation theory assails the limitations of market-state duality by stressing the involvement of … non-market, non-state social actors in promulgating social novelties. Austrian perspectives on social theory may also gain …
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This is the introduction a Symposium on Carl Menger on the Centenary of his Death. Our introduction includes a short biographical sketch of Carl Menger's life as well as a summary of the contribtuions to the symposium by Sandra J. Peart, Günther Chaloupek, Erwin Dekker, and Sandye Gloria
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popularity. Econometrics has arguably taken a more central role in the discipline than even formal economic theory. And, most … economics and these new social scientific methods. Do Austrian critiques of the excessive ambitions of formal theory and … distinctively Austrian theories? How should we update our views on the relationship between abstract economic theory and empirical …
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Vernon Smith (2008) argues that his experimental work is a demonstration of Friedrich Hayek's ‘ecological rationalism'. This assertion is difficult to square with Hayek's apparent dismissal of the possibility of demonstrating ‘ecological rationality' in a laboratory (documented in Smith...
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This paper addresses the perspective of Hayek's doctrine on monetary arrangements in the economy and his favorable argument for an international central bank over national central bank. I also discussed Hayek's view on free banking (i.e. for the free issue of bank notes) that would enable the...
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