Interdisciplinary Studies of the Market Order

Peter J. Boettke is the Vice President and Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Studyin Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics andPhilosophy at George Mason University.Christopher J. Coyne is the F. A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University andthe Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, andEconomics at the Mercatus Center.Virgil H. Storr is Research Associate Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, F.A. Hayek Program forAdvanced Study in Philosophy, Politics & Economics, George Mason University.

• Introduction, Peter Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Virgil Storr / Part I - Exploring and Extending the Theory of the Market Process / 1. Plato's Economic Genius, Nathan Sawarzky / 2. Beyond the Efficiency of the Market: Adam Smith on Sympathy and the Poor Law, Brianne Wolf / 3. Why be robust? The contribution of market process theory to the Robust Political Economy research program, Nick Cowen / 4. Hayek’s Legacy for Environmental Political Economy, Dan Shahar / Part II - Interdisciplinary Applications of Market Process Theory / 5. The Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Market Process: An Archaeological Assessment of Competitive Feasting, Trade, and Social Cooperation, Crystal Dozier / 6. The Political Economy: The Invocation of Liberal Economics by the Catholic Press in the French Right-to-Work Debates of 1848, Nicholas O’Neill / 7. How the West was Watered: Private Property and Collective Action, Bryan Leonard / 8. Adam Smith’s Principles of Taxation in the Early American Republic, Frank Garmon / 9. Narrating

This is a truly interdisciplinary work. One of its greatest strengths is the editors’ ability to bring contributions from such a wide range of disciplines into focus within the frame work of market process economics and public choice.