The Driving Force of the Market: Essays in Austrian Economics

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Psychology Press, 2000 - Business & Economics - 295 pages

This book offers a unique insight into the character of Austrian economics. This work also collects the recent work of the leading authorities in this area, and will be an indispensible tool for all those interested in the implications of Austrian approach on economics. The author also examines
*the market economy
*theories of Competition and Entrepreneurship
*the Mises-Hayek legacy.

 

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Contents

Entrepreneurial discovery and the competitive market process an Austrian approach
5
The Subjectivism of Austrian economics
43
Subjectivism freedom And economic law
56
The market process some normative perspectives
77
The limits of the market the real and the imagined
79
The ethics of competition
90
The nature of profits some economic insights and their ethical implications
105
Coordination as a criterion for economic goodness
134
Studies in the theory of competition and entrepreneurship
205
Competition and the market process some doctrinal milestones
207
The driving force of the market the idea of competition in contemporary economic theory and in the Austrian theory of the market process
224
Creativity andor alertness a reconsideration of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur
241
Rationality entrepreneurship and economic imperialism
260
Three Obituaries
275
Ludwig von Mises
277
Friedrich A von Hayek
280

Studies in the MisesHayek legacy
151
Reflections on the Misesian legacy in economics
153
Mises and his understanding of the capitalist system
167
Hedgehog or fox? Hayek and the idea of plancoordination
182
Ludwig M Lachmann
288
Index
292
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