Driving Force of the Collective

Guinevere Liberty Nell studied and published in Austrian economics and Soviet history, and worked as a programmer and as a tax policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. before earning a Master's Degree in Soviet economic history from the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Rediscovering Fire: Basic Economic Lessons from the Soviet Experiment and Spontaneous Order and The Utopian Collective, and editor of three essay collections that push the boundaries of Austrian economics.

• 1. Collaborative Discovery and the Conversive Democratic Process: A Post-Austrian Approach.- 2. The Individualist Subjectivism of Austrian Economics.- 3. Subjectivism, Freedom, and Social-Interest.- 4. The Limits of Democracy: The Real and the Imagined.- 5. The Ethics of Competition and Cooperation.- 6. Some Ethical Insights on the Nature of Profits.-7. Coordination and Collaboration: Agreement as a Criterion for Democratic Goodness.- 8. Reflections on the Misesian Legacy of Hyper-Individualism.- 9. Knowledge and the Austrian Understanding of the Democratic System.- 10. Culture, Hayek, and the idea of Plan-Coordination.- 11. Conversation and the Democratic Process: Some Doctrinal Touchstones.- 12. The Driving Force of the Collective: The Idea of “Conversation” in Contemporary Economic Theory and in the Post-Austrian Theory of the Democratic Process.- 13. Misallocation and/or Misunderstood: A Reconsideration of the Misesian Calculation Problem.- 14. Society, the Collective, and Economic "Imperialism".