All Posts Tagged With: "Israel Kirzner"
Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well by Terry A. Anderson and Donald R. Leal
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. • 1997 • 189 pages • $52.50 cloth; $16.95 paperback Writing about Austrian economics and the market process, Israel Kirzner explains how entrepreneurs play a crucial role in discovering products, markets, and processes for improving human welfare (Journal of Economic Literature, March 1997). The interesting aspect of all this is [...]
1Feb1999 | Bruce Yandle | 0 comments | ContinuedVienna and Chicago: A Tale of Two Schools
Since its inception, the Foundation for Economic Education has been associated with two free-market schools, the Austrian school of Ludwig von Mises and, to a lesser extent, the Chicago school of Milton Friedman. Mises, after leaving Vienna for New York City, was closely involved with Leonard Read, FEE’s founder. He spoke frequently at FEE’s headquarters in Irvington-on-Hudson, and wrote regularly for The Freeman.
1Feb1998 | Mark Skousen | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Undiscountable Professor Kirzner
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, whose name has come to be virtually synonymous with roundaboutness (of capital-using production processes), penned the original Austrian perspective on capital and interest. He wrote three volumes (History and Critique, Positive Theory, and Further Essays) over a span of a quarter of a century (1884-1909). In 1959 the 1,200-plus pages of Capital [...]
1Aug1997 | Roger W. Garrison | 0 comments | ContinuedKnowledge, Ignorance, and Government Schools
The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Albert Shanker, put it well: “It’s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our school system doesn’t improve: [...]
1Jun1995 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom, Efficiency, and The New York Post
Joseph S. Fulda, a Contributing Editor of The Freeman, has been published frequently in scientific journals, philosophical journals, mathematics journals, law reviews, and journals of opinion. In a beautiful little article, “Entrepreneurs and Their Gifts,” Jane Shaw, a Contributing Editor of this journal, makes the case that entrepreneurs, even when they don’t succeed, give to [...]
1Jun1995 | Joseph S. Fulda | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Story of a Movement
In June of 1974 in the little town of South Royalton, Vermont, the modern resurgence of Austrian economics began. George Pearson, who had graduated from Grove City College and was then working with the Institute for Humane Studies, initiated the idea to bring together the three leading active scholars in Austrian economics–Israel Kirzner, Ludwig Lachmann, [...]
1May1995 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | ContinuedClassics in Austrian Economics, 3 volumes
When Carl Menger published his seminal book on economic theory in 1871 he established a tradition of economic scholarship that is still attempting to come to terms with his revolutionary insights into human action and the exchange process. As Mises reports in Notes and Recollections, it was upon reading Menger’s Principles that he became an [...]
1Feb1995 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | Continued-
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