The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity

Jesús Huerta de Soto

Edward Elgar, 2008 - Austrian school of economics - 129 pages

The Austrian School forms a concise but comprehensive exposition of the main tenets of the modern Austrian School of Economics while also providing a detailed explanation of the differences between the Austrian and the neoclassical (including the Chicago School) approaches to economics. The book also includes:

- reviews of the contributions of the main Austrian economists, critical analysis of the major objections to Austrian economics and an evaluation of its likely future development
- complete exposition on the concepts and implications of entrepreneurship and dynamic competition
- a new concept of dynamic efficiency (as an alternative to the standard Paretian criterion) and a generalised definition of socialism (as a systematic aggression against entrepreneurship)
- evaluation of the role of Spanish Scholastics of the 16th century as forerunners of the Austrian School, as well as the influence and contributions of the main Austrian Scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries.

This book will most notably appeal to Austrian economists but also to other free market economists as well as researchers and academics of economic methodology, the history of economic thought, institutional economics and comparative economic systems.

Contents

• 1: 5
• 1: 11
• Carl Menger and the forerunners of the Austrian school: 28

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity; The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity, Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain)
• Author: Jesús Huerta de Soto
• Editor: Jesús Huerta de Soto
• Contributor: Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain)
• Publisher: Edward Elgar, 2008
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Oct 16, 2009
• ISBN: 1847207685, 9781847207685
• Length: 129 pages