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Austrian Theory and Economic Organization

Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Guinevere Liberty Nell
      Pages 1-5

  3. Order and Efficiency in Free Markets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Improving Spontaneous Orders

      • Randall G. Holcombe
      Pages 9-28

    3. The Problem of Unemployment When Markets Clear

      • Daniel Kuehn
      Pages 29-53

  4. The Firm in the Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Economic Calculation Under Capitalist Central Planning

      • Kevin Carson
      Pages 57-95

    3. The Firm and the Authority Relation: Hierarchy vs. Organization

      • Per L. Bylund
      Pages 97-120

  5. Freedom, Contracts, and the State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Contract, Freedom, and Flourishing: The Implications of Spain’s Mondragon Cooperatives

      • Gus DiZerega
      Pages 123-146

    3. Eliminating the Perceived Legitimacy of the State

      • Caleb J. Miles, Edward Peter Stringham
      Pages 147-174

  6. Austrian Economics and Market Socialism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Responding to Hayek from the Left: Beyond Market Socialism on the Path to a Radical Economic Democracy

      • Andrew Cumbers
      Pages 177-196

    3. The Post-Austrian School and the New Market Socialism

      • Guinevere Liberty Nell
      Pages 197-238

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 239-247
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The Austrian economic school famously predicted and explained the problems of calculation in a socialist society. With their concept of spontaneous order, they challenged mainstream economists to look beyond simplified static models and consider the dynamic and evolutionary characteristics of social orders. However, many feel that Austrians took their victory too far and became ideologically devoted to laissez-faire. Austrian Theory and Economic Organization is a collection of essays on problems and possibilities in economic organization, written by economists and political scientists with an interest in the dynamic and evolutionary nature of market economies. Each chapter explores areas of potential agreement between Austrian theory, market socialist economics, and other heterodox schools of economic and political science. The collection aims to bridge cultural and political divisions between free market advocates who stress individual rights and left-leaning thinkers who stress social justice and a culture of solidarity.

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Per L. Bylund, Baylor University, USA Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society, USA Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow, UK Gus diZerega, Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, USA Randall G. Holcombe, Florida State University, USA Daniel Kuehn, American University, USA Caleb J. Miles, University of Auckland, New Zealand Edward Peter Stringham, Fayetteville State University, USA

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