| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 450 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Advances in Austrian economics ; v. 8
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Advances in Austrian economics ; v. 8.
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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2009). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Advisory Board -- Editor's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Dynamics of Intervention -- The Political Economy of the Dynamic Nature of Government Intervention: An Introduction to Potentials and Problems -- Introduction -- The Mises-Hayek Political Economy Analysis of Intervention -- Three Challenges for the Mises-Hayek Analysis -- The Contributions -- Notes -- References -- The Dynamics of Interventionism -- Introduction -- The Historical Development of the Theory of Interventionism -- Two Paradoxes -- The Essentials of Austrian Political Economy -- Kinds of Interventionist Dynamics -- The Instability of the Minimal State -- Implications and Pattern Predictions -- Comparison with Public Choice -- Areas for Future Research -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- From Laissez-Faire to Zwangswirtschaft: The Dynamics of Interventionism -- Preface -- The Market Process -- The Economic Means and the Political Means -- Specific Examples of Dislocations Produced by Interventionism -- The Expansionist Tendencies of Interventionism -- Zwangswirtschaft: The Culmination of Interventionism -- War and Inflation: Catalysts of Interventionism -- Stages in the Evolution of the Interventionist Dynamic -- The System of Zwangswirtschaft -- The Evolution of Ideology: The Subjective Dimension of Interventionism -- Zwangswirtschaft and the Quest for Ideological Hegemony -- Interventionism as a Process of Retrogression -- A Concluding Comment: The Futility of Reformism -- Notes -- Austrian Economics, Praxeology and Intervention -- Praxeology -- What Tests What? -- Synthetic a Priori -- Intervention: Methodology -- Intervention Typology -- Notes -- References -- Regulation, More Regulation, Partial Deregulation, and Reregulation: The Disequilibrating Nature of a Rent-Seeking Society -- Introduction -- The Public-Choice Static-Equilibrium Model of Special Interest Regulation -- The Dynamics of a Regulatory Process: More Regulation, Partial Deregulation, and Reregulation -- Conclusions: The Inherent Inefficiency of Regulation -- Notes -- References -- The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle: Reflections on Some Socio-Economic Effects -- Preface -- A Positive Statement of Austrian Business Cycle Theory -- Socio-Economic Implications of the Business Cycle -- Notes -- The Political Economy of Crisis Management: Surprise, Urgency, and Mistakes in Political Decision Making -- Introduction: Ignorance as a Characteristic of all Crisis Management -- An Illustration: Optimization with Missing Variables -- The Politics of Crisis Management in a Well-Functioning Democracy -- Standing procedures and Institutions for Limiting Damages from Crisis Management -- Conclusions: Crisis Management and Rational Choice Analysis -- Notes -- References -- The Conflict About the Middle of the Road: The Austrians Versus Public Choice -- Introduction -- The Conflict -- The Existence and Nature of the Ideolog. |
| Summary |
The majority of studies in this book are dedicated to an examination and re-appreciation of the insight of the Austrian school of economics. Another small section contains part of a long-running debate on Austrian business cycles between Walter Block, William Barnett and Gordon Tullock. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Austrian school of economics.
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Austrian school of economics. |
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Intervention (Federal government)
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Intervention (Federal government) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dynamics of intervention. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2005 0762310537 (OCoLC)62533208 |
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Print version: Dynamics of intervention. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, ©2005 0762310537 (OCoLC)70810019 |
| ISBN |
9780080461946 (electronic book) (NetLibrary) |
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0080461948 (electronic book) (NetLibrary) |
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9781849502375 (electronic book) (ebrary) |
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1849502374 (electronic book) (ebrary) |
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9780762310531 (bk.) |
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0762310537 (bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9780762310531 |
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