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Walter Block's critique of my paper fails to address the main argument: that Ludwig von Mises's support for laissez faire comes from a comparison of the systems recommended by the ideologies of socialism, interventionism, and liberalism. Mises compares these systems according to the criterion of...
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Ludwig von Mises is often regarded as a "champion" of laissez faire. This characterization seems to contradict Mises's clear statement that economics is value free. The aim of this paper is to resolve this apparent contradiction. We accomplish this by distinguishing, as Mises did, between the...
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The development of the praxeological concept ofentrepreneurship has been discussed in several recent research articles.Based on this concept, three categories of entrepreneurial action areidentified:(1) appraisement of production factors, (2) undertaking, and(3) uncertainty bearing.Considering...
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In his book on Austrian welfare economics, Roy Cordato presents a scathing criticism of the Coasean approach to making judgments in tort cases. His criticism claims that the Coasean approach is both unrealistic and normative. Moreover, it would introduce uncertainty, thereby reducing...
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This paper argues that Ronald Coase's major contributions to economic theory are best understood in terms of the distinct method he used to build more realistic models of choice. We call his method the benchmark-comparison method. It consists of building models of choice and then using them as...
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A review essay on Harald Hagemann, Tamotsu Nishizawa and Yukihiro Ikeda (eds), Austrian Economics in Transition: From Carl Menger to Friedrich Hayek, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. vi-340.
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This paper shows, by example, how easy it is for an imaginative economist to manufacture plausible assumptions about individual cognition, even when the set of assumptions is limited to those which conform to the economic paradigm of individual rational choice. It examines a recent article which...
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