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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459773503321

Titolo

Advances in Austrian economics . Volume 14 What is so Austrian about Austrian economics? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Roger Koppl, Steven Horwitz, Pierre Desrochers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, UK, : Emerald, 2010

ISBN

1-282-75296-0

9786612752964

0-85724-262-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Advances in Austrian economics, , 1529-2134 ; ; 14

Altri autori (Persone)

KopplRoger <1957->

HorwitzSteven

DesrochersPierre <1969->

Disciplina

330.157

Soggetti

Austrian school of economics

Schools 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.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; What is so Austrian about Economics?; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: Regrettably exciting times; Chapter 1. Opening remarks; Chapter 2. The domain of Austrian economics; Chapter 3. An ''Austrian'' interpretation of the meaning of Austrian economics: History, methodology, and theory; Chapter 4. The context of context: The evolution of Hayek's epistemic turn in economics and politics; Chapter 5. How did Austrian economics thrive outside of Vienna: the case of French political economy

Chapter 6. Perspective taking and the heterogeneity of the entrepreneurial imaginationChapter 7. Why Austrians should quit worrying and learn to love the lab; Chapter 8. How complex are the Austrians?; Chapter 9. Change within permanence: time and the bivalent logic of economic analysis; Chapter 10. The role of ideal types in Austrian business cycle theory; Chapter 11. The fatal conceit of foreign intervention

Sommario/riassunto

Leading scholars consider Austrian economics from several



perspectives such as characteristic themes of entrepreneurship and uncertainty, scientific methods such as mathematical complexity theory and experimental economics, and historical contexts such as pre-war Vienna and post-war France. Placing "Austrian economics" in these multiple contexts helps to reveal the rich texture of the Austrian tradition in social thought and its multiple connections to current research in diverse fields. Applications to the theory of the trade cycle and to foreign intervention suggest that the Austrian traditi