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A revision of the author's thesis, University of California at Los Angeles. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 158-167.
Austrian Economics Re-examined: The Economics of Time and Ignorance is an expanded version of the 1996 edition of The Economics of Time and Ignorance. This work is a classic statement of the role of subjectivism, radical uncertainty and change through real time in Austrian economics specifically, and in modern economics more generally. The new book contains the full text and Introductions of the earlier edition as well as the comprehensive previously-unpublished essay "What is Austrian Economics?" and a new Introduction. The essay is a comprehensive overview of the central themes of the book from a somewhat different perspective than in the book itself. It supplements the analysis in the boo...
The purpose of this book is to give the reader a definition of the Enterprise and a framework or method to analyze, manage and govern the Enterprise. This book is written for managers, directors and all those responsible for the stewardship of a Corporate Enterprise. It is written for students of management, both theoretical and practical. It is written for anyone who wants to create an Enterprise, especially the individual Entrepreneur. It is written for regulators so that they will better understand what they regulate and the true impact of their regulation. And finally, it is written for every member of any form of Enterprise, from the smallest Enterprise unit of a family to the largest of corporate or national Enterprise.
Consists of original and rev. versions of papers presented at a conference at Airlie House in Virginia, Mar. 1983. Includes bibliographies and index.
In Chapter 5, William Shughart also considers the part that politics played in banking legislation during the 1930s, but he looks at the banking legislation passed in the United States. Shughart draws par ticular attention to the provisions in the Banking Act of 1933 that required the separation of commercial and investment banking activ ities. Applying a public choice analysis, Shughart asks who gained from the provisions, and he concludes that the commercial banking industry, the investment banking industry, and the U. S. Treasury Department can all be said to have benefited in the years immedi ately following the passage of the act. Richard Timberlake, in his comment, extends Shughart's a...
Discusses voting, tax policy, government regulation, redistribution of wealth, and international negotiation in a new approach to government
The Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics provides an in-depth treatment of Friedrich August von Hayekês economic thought from his technical economics of the 1920s and 1930s to his broader views on the spontaneous order of a free society. Taken togethe