Legacy of Ludwig von Mises

Edited by Peter J. Boettke, University Professor of Economics and Philosophy and Peter T. Leeson, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law, Department of Economics, George Mason University, US

• ContentsVolume I: Theory AcknowledgementsIntroduction The Economist as System Builder – Ludwig von Mises as the Architect of the Science of Economics and Political Economy Peter J. Boettke and Peter T. LeesonPART ITHE MISESIAN SYSTEM 1. F.H. Knight (1941), ‘Professor Mises and the Theory of Capital’2. L.M. Lachmann (1951), ‘The Science of Human Action’3. Murray N. Rothbard (1971), ‘Ludwig von Mises and the Paradigm for Our Age’4. Joseph T. Salerno (1999), ‘The Place of Mises’s Human Action in the Development of Modern Economic Thought’5. Peter J. Boettke (2002), ‘The Place of Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens in Modern Political Economy’PART IIMETHODOLOGY 6. Fritz Machlup ([1956] 1994), ‘The Inferiority Complex of the Social Sciences’7. Alfred Schuetz (1953), ‘Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action’8. Murray N. Rothbard (1976), ‘Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics’9. Israel M. Kirzner (1976), ‘On the Method of Austrian Economics’10. Robin Cowan and Mario J. Rizzo (1996), ‘The Genetic-Causal Tradition and Modern Economic Theory’PART IIIMARKET THEORY AND THE PRICE SYSTEM 11. F. Machlup (1958), ‘Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: Misplaced Concreteness and Disguised Politics’12. Murray N. Rothbard ([1956] 1994), ‘Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics’13. Israel M. Kirzner (1990), ‘The Meaning of Market Process’14. Ludwig M. Lachmann (1976), ‘From Mises to Shackle: An Essay on Austrian Economics and the Kaleidic Society’15. G.A. Selgin (1988), ‘Praxeology and Understanding: An Analysis of the Controversy in Austrian Economics’PART IVMONEY, CAPITAL AND BUSINESS CYCLES 16. Gottfried Haberler (1932), ‘Money and the Business Cycle’17. Roger W. Garrison (1984), ‘Time and Money: The Universals of Macroeconomic Theorizing’18. George Selgin (1994), ‘On Ensuring the Acceptability of a New Fiat Money’PART VSOCIALISM, INTERVENTIONISM AND LIBERALISM 19. Joseph T. Salerno (1990), ‘Ludwig von Mises as Social Rationalist’20. Israel M. Kirzner (1988), ‘The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians’21. Peter J. Boettke (1998), ‘Economic Calculation: The Austrian Contribution to Political Economy’22. Henry M. Oliver, Jr. (1960), ‘Von Mises on the Harmony of Interests’PART VIASSESSMENT 23. Israel M. Kirzner (1996), ‘Reflections on the Misesian Legacy in Economics’Name IndexVolume II: HistoryAcknowledgementsIntroduction Understanding the Economic World: Applications of Misesian Theory Peter J. Boettke and Peter T. LeesonPART IPRICE CONTROLS AND INTERVENTIONISM 1. Donald C. Lavoie (1982), ‘The Development of the Misesian Theory of Interventionism’2. Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler ([1946] 1981), ‘Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem’3. Sanford Ikeda (1995), ‘The Use of Knowledge in Government and Market’4. Hugh Rockoff (1981), ‘Price and Wage Controls in Four Wartime Periods’PART IISOCIALISM 5. Peter J. Boettke (1988), ‘The Soviet Experiment with Pure Communism’6. Vladimir Mau (1996), ‘The Road to Perestroika: Economics in the USSR and the Problems of Reforming the Soviet Economic Order’7. John Howard Wilhelm (1993), ‘The Soviet Economic Failure: Brutzkus Revisited’8. Murray N. Rothbard (1992), ‘How and How Not to Desocialize’PART IIITHE GREAT DEPRESSION AND BUSINESS CYCLES9. Robert Higgs (1997), ‘Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed after the War’10. Roger W. Garrison (1993), ‘The Roaring Twenties and the Bullish Eighties: The Role of Government in Boom and Bust’11. Richard E. Wagner (1980), ‘Boom and Bust: The Political Economy of Economic Disorder’12. William N. Butos (1993), ‘The Recession and Austrian Business Cycle Theory: An Empirical Perspective’13. Catherine England (1993), ‘The Savings and Loan Debacle’PART IVPOLITICAL ECONOMY 14. Murray N. Rothbard (1972), ‘War Collectivism in World War I’15. Murray N. Rothbard (1981), ‘The Laissez-Faire Radical: A Quest for the Historical Mises’16. Walter Block (1983), ‘Public Goods and Externalities: The Case of Roads’17. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1995), ‘The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order’PART V“POST-MISESIAN” ESSAYS ON INSTITUTIONS AND HISTORICAL PROCESSES 18. Bruce L. Benson (1989), ‘The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law’19. Avner Greif (1989), ‘Reputations and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders’20. Robert C. Ellickson (1993), ‘Property in Land’21. Andrei Shleifer (1997), ‘Government in Transition’PART VIASSESSMENT 22. Richard M. Ebeling (2002), ‘The Economist as the Historian of Decline: Ludwig von Mises and Austria between the Two World Wars’Name Index

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