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The Genesis and Ethos of the Market makes the assertion that virtue is not inconsistent with economic liberty. This raises the question about the relationship between virtue and economic liberty addressed in the "Civil Economy" tradition of the Neapolitan Enlightenment. We explore this question...
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This paper argues that the approach to economics that is characteristic of Austrian economists emerged out of the interaction of continental thought and classical economics. This approach begins with reflection upon the purposive action of living men, and views the market as an ongoing process...
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In the 2011 Franz Cuhel Memorial Lecture, I argue of endogenous rule formation in economic life (what I term the positive political economy of anarchism) should be studied in-depth and that the economic analysis of the Austrian school of economics provides many of the key analytical insights...
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The Austrian contribution to the development of law and economics is the study of endogenous rule formation, or the spontaneous evolution of social institutions, which can be traced to the founder of the Austrian School, Carl Menger. While Menger's emphasis on spontaneous institutional analysis...
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According to the neoclassical economic theory, common goods would be underproduced by the market in the absence of a …
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In studying the development of western freedoms, perhaps no subject is more worthy of discussion than classical liberalism, which the late historian Ralph Raico wrote was “the signature political philosophy of Western Civilization.” Raico defined classical liberalism as “the ideology...
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Will a society's political agents provide good governance? An answer must be sought first and foremost at the constitutional level. While Austrians have made important contributions to constitutional political economy (CPE), they have often avoided interesting and important questions regarding...
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Ludwig von Mises pioneered the praxeological critique of economic interventionism. He argued that the state's manipulation of market processes through wage and price controls, taxes and subsidies, central bank credit manipulation, and other regulatory policies would create unintended and...
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This essay praises Gerald Gaus's The Order of Public Reason as a building block for all normative explorations into the institutional foundations of human sociability. It evaluates the normative implications put forth by Gaus in terms of the Kirzner's “finder's keeper's ethic.” This raises a...
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Epistemic arguments play a significant role in Hayek's defense of market liberalism. His claim that market competition … and cost competition but also competition by innovations. Thence he overlooks the ambiguity that follows from the … Hayek's version of market liberalism. -- competition ; innovation ; liberalism ; knowledge ; self-organization ; Hayek …
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