Austrian Economics: Tensions and New Directions

When we first invited the group of distinguished scholars represented here to contribute to a new volume on Austrian economics, four themes were stressed: tensions, new directions, selectivity, and criticism. In this brief introduction we will explain why

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Austrian Economics: Tensions and New Directions

Edited by Bruce J. Caldwell Stephan Boehm

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

library 01 Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Austrian econom ies: tensions and new directions/edited by Bruce J. Caldwell and Slephan Boehm. p. cm. - (Recenl econcmic thought series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-94-010-4968-9 ISBN 978-94-011-2186-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2186-6 1. Austrian school of economists. 1. Caldwell, Bruce J.

II. Boehm, Slephan. III. Series.

HB98.A975 1992 33O.15'7-dc20

92-22611 CIP

Copyright © 1992 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Origin,lIy published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1992 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition .1992 AII rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,

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In memoriam LML

Contents

Contributing Authors

ix

Preface

xi

1

Austrian Economics Between the Wars: Some Historiographical Problems Stephan Boehm Commentary by Mark Blaug

2 The Market as an Isolated Causal Process: A Metaphysical Ground for Realism Uskali Maki

35

Commentary by Bruce J. Caldwell

3 Kirzner's Theory of Entrepreneurship-A Critique Martin Ricketts

67

Commentary by Israel M. Kirzner Entrepreneurship, Uncertainty and Austrian Economics

4 Subjectivism, Explanation and the Austrian Tradition Jeremy Shearmur

103

Comment