Philosophy, Politics, and Austrian Economics

Daniel J. D’Amico is the Associate Director of the Political Theory Project at Brown University, where he is also a Lecturer in Economics. His current research is focused upon the political economy of crime and punishment throughout history and around the world. Adam G. Martin is an Associate Professor in Agricultural and Applied Economics and Political Economy Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. His research interests focus on the intersection of philosophy, politics and economics. He is Vice President of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.

• Chapter 1. Is the Concept of “Spontaneous Order” Simply Libertarian Fairy Dust?; James JohnsonChapter 2. Hayek and His Socialist Friends; Peter J. BoettkeChapter 3. Is Socialism Atavistic?; Joseph HeathChapter 4. Despotic or Dynamic? Hayek on Democracy and Expertise; Gianna EnglertChapter 5. Asymmetric Idealization and the Market Process; Brian KogelmannChapter 6. Rothbard’s Account of the Axiom of Human Action: Neo-Aristotelian-Thomistic Defense; Douglas B. Rasmussen Chapter 7. A PPE Approach to Adam Smith on Spectatorship and the Social Origins of Property Rights; Michelle A. SchwarzeChapter 8. Policing Without Politics: Why Liberal Egalitarians Should Rethink the Role of the State in Criminal Justice; Christopher FreimanChapter 9. The Wealth and Poverty of Self-Governing Communities; Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia MurtazashviliChapter 10. Constitutionalism, Liberalism, and Political Entrepreneurship; Alexander William Salter Chapter 11. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Evolution: Making Sense of the American Judiciary; A.K. Shauku