New perspectives on Austrian economics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gerrit Meijer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449675203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995
• ISBN: 1-134-80623-X; 1-281-18997-9; 9786611189976; 0-203-03020-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (625 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MeijerG <1938-> (Gerrit)
• Disciplina: 330.15/7
• Soggetti: Austrian school of economics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part I THE SUBJECTIVISM OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS; 1 THE SUBJECTIVISM OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS; THE SUBJECTIVISM OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL; THE INCOMPLETENESS OF MENGER'S SUBJECTIVISM; MENGER'S SUBJECTIVIST HERITAGE: THE DIVERGENT PATHS; THE MODERN AUSTRIAN SUBJECTIVISM; SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS AVOIDED; RADICAL CRITIQUES AND MODERN AUSTRIAN DEFENCES; SUBJECTIVISM AND THE AUSTRIAN TRADITION; REFERENCES; Part II HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS; 2 CARL MENGER IN THE 1860's: Menger on Roscher's Grundlagen; INTRODUCTION; THE MENGER PAPERS; MENGER'S OUTLINES MENGER AND ROSCHER ON THE DEFINITION OF GOODS; SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; CONCLUDING REMARKS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 3 COMMENT ON YUKIHIRO IKEDA'S 'CARL MENGER IN THE 1860's'; 4 NICOLAAS GERARD PIERSON: HIS IMPACT ON AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO ECONOMIC SCIENCE; INTRODUCTION; PIERSON'S LIFE; PIERSON'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC SCIENCE; The philosophical background of Pierson; The social problem (pauperism, wages); The labour problem; The problem of public finance (Taxation); Value; Methodology; PIERSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTRODUCTION OF MARGINAL UTILITY THEORY AND THE IDEAS OF THE 'AUSTRIAN SCHOOL 'PIERSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO ECONOMIC THEORY IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT; His work; Pierson's contact with international economists; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Collected works of N.G.Pierson; Archives; Footnotes; 5 AUSTRIAN SUSTAINABILITY; BÖHM'S THEORY; DURATION OF CONSUMER GOODS; DURATION OF CAPITAL GOODS: THE CASE OF A FIXED BUDGET; FLEXIBLE BUDGET: A PARADOX; NOTES; REFERENCES; Footnotes; 6 THE SHORT-CUT APPROACH TO CONSUMER CALCULATIONS: A NEO-MARGINALIST SOLUTION; INTRODUCTION; SHORT CUTS IN EQUILIBRIUM Short cuts in disequilibrium; A FIRST MODEL OF CONSUMER ABBREVIATION; DIFFERENT SAVING AND CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Footnotes; Part III THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF MODERN AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS; 7 SCHUMPETER VS. HAYEK: TWO APPROACHES TO EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS; INTRODUCTION; HOW CORE NOTIONS OF THE TWO SCHOOLS RELATE; SCHUMPETERIAN EVOLUTION: THE DENIAL OF SUBJECTIVISM; WHAT KIND OF SUBJECTIVISM?; HOW TO DEAL WITH NOVELTY; HAYEKIAN EVOLUTION: A DENIAL OF INDIVIDUALISM?; EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM; CONCLUSIONS: WHAT CAN BE GAINED?; NOTES REFERENCES; Footnotes; 8 COMMENT ON ULRICH WITT'S 'SCHUMPETER vs. HAYEK'; REFERENCES; 9 AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND UNCERTAINTY: ON A NON-DETERMINISTIC BUT NON-HAPHAZARD FUTURE; INTRODUCTION; HUMAN ACTION; PRAXEOLOGY; UNDERSTANDING; ECONOMIC CALCULATION; EQUILIBRIUM vs. CO-ORDINATION; ECONOMICS AND KNOWLEDGE; UNCERTAINTY vs. ERROR; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; EXPECTATIONS; TIME AND TYPES; ENTREPRENEURSHIP vs. RULES; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Footnotes; 10 KIRZNER'S CORE CONCEPTS; INTRODUCTION; THE CONTEXT OF KIRZNER'S CONCEPTION OF ECONOMICS; Kirzner's perspective on the history of economic thought; Kirzner and Robbins
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years there has been a spectacular revival of interest in the economics of the Austrian school.New Perspectives on Austrian Economics includes*A keynote chapter by Israel Kirzner on the question of subjectivism within Austrian Economics*Chapters on Menger, Hayek and Schumpeter*the Socialist Calculation debate*Austrian perspectives on key theoretical issues including Uncertainty and Business Cycle Theory*the policy implications of Austrian economics