Austrian Economics in Debate

Willem Keizer, Bert Tieben, Rudy Van Zijp

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780415756891
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317949978
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

This book presents essays by an outstanding team of international specialists and covers a wide range of topics, including (inter alia) the relationships between the Austrian and Swedish theories of the business cycle, the on-going debates between Austrians and (Post) Keynesians, Schumpeter's 'Walrasian' stand in the socialist calculation debate, and the Austrian roots of Neo-Institutional economics. The studies stress the unique Austrian contributions to economic methodology and to the theory of entrepreneurship, while revealing unexpected methodological and philosophical similarities between, among others, Hayek and Marx.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on contributors
• 1 Introduction: Austrian Economics in Debate
• 2 Austrian Themes in a Reconstructed Macroeconomics
• 3 Money, Economic Fluctuations, Expectations and Period Analysis: The Austrian and Swedish Economists in the Interwar Period
• 4 Schumpeter’s Walrasian Stand in the Socialist Calculation Debate
• 5 Misunderstandings and other Coordination Failures in the Hayek–Keynes Controversy
• 6 Critical Realism: Marx and Hayek
• 7 Austrian Economics and the Abandonment of the Classic Thought Experiment
• 8 The Theory of Entrepreneurship in Austrian Economics
• 9 Entrepreneurship, Interdependency and Institutions: The Comparative Advantages of the Austrian and Post-Keynesian Styles of Thought
• 10 Hayek and Rational Expectations
• 11 On Austrian and Neo-Institutionalist Economics
• 12 Private Information, Contractual Arrangements and Hayek’s Knowledge Problem
• Index