Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

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1. Markets, Morals, and Policy-Making

   A New Defence of Free-Market Economics

   By Enrico Colombatto

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Free-market economics has attempted to combine efficiency and freedom by emphasizing the need for neutral rules and meta-rules. These efforts have only been partly successful, for they have failed to address the deeper, normative arguments justifying – and limiting – coercion. This failure has thus...

   Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge
2. Risk and Business Cycles

   New and Old Austrian Perspectives

   By Tyler Cowen

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Risk and Business Cycles examines the causes of business cycles, a perennial topic of interest within economics. The author argues the case for the revival of an important role for monetary causes in business cycle theory, which challenges the current trend towards favouring purely real theories....

   Published July 14th 2010 by Routledge
3. Mind, Society, and Human Action

   Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy

   By Richard Wagner

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate. Over the major part of the 20th century, however, economists mostly turned away from...

   Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge
4. Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress

   By Randall Holcombe

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This new book from Randall Holcombe begins by identifying areas in which evolutionary and Austrian approaches differ from the...

   Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
5. Microfoundations and Macroeconomics

   An Austrian Perspective

   By Steven Horwitz

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   In the past, Austrian economics has been seen as almost exclusively focused on microeconomics. Here,Steven Horwitz constructs a systematic presentation of what Austrian macroeconomics would look like. This original and highly accessible work will be of great value and interest to professional...

   Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
6. Liberalism against Liberalism

   Theoretical Analysis of the Works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker

   By Javier Aranzadi

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents of the Chicago School and the last two of the...

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Theory of Dynamic Efficiency

   By Jesús Huerta De Soto

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   This book gathers a collection of English language essays by Jesús Huerta de Soto over the past ten years, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions. The author’s...

   Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
8. Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

   By David A Harper

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   This well-written book is the first to deal with entrepreneurship in all its aspects. It considers the economic, psychological, political, legal and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship from a market-process perspective. David A Harper has produced a volume that analyses why some people are...

   Published September 16th 2007 by Routledge
9. Time and Money

   The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure

   By Roger W Garrison

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Time and Money argues persuasively that the troubles which characterise modern capital-intensive economies, particularly the episodes of boom and bust, may best be analysed with the aid of a capital-based macroeconomics. The primary focus of this text is the intertemporal structure of capital, an...

   Published January 10th 2007 by Routledge
10. Calculation and Coordination

    Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy

    By Peter J Boettke

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    This collection of essays from one of the major Austrian economists working in the world today brings together in one place some of his key writings on a variety of economic issues....

    Published July 31st 2006 by Routledge