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Subject: Price-Cost-and-Equilibrium: 54 records

Foundations of the Market Price System

Milton M. Shapiro Updated 2/24/2012

Murray Rothbard just loved this Austrian text on microeconomic theory. In fact, he thought it was the best text available - except that it has only been sporadically available since it was first published in 1974. It is characterized by a strong peda...
The Common Sense of Political Economy, Volume 1

Philip H. Wicksteed Updated 2/10/2012

Phillip H. Wicksteed The Common Sense of Political Economy, vol. 1...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/12/2012

Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
Money, Method, and the Market Process

Ludwig von Mises Updated 9/29/2011

Edited by Richard M. Ebeling This volume might be called the Mises Reader, for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like "Observations on the Cooperative Movement,"...
Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

Charles Holt Carroll Updated 9/20/2011

Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are all collected here, in The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers. Little is known of Charles Holt Car...
Economics for Real People

Gene Callahan Updated 9/16/2011

The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or sta...
Introduction to Austrian Economics, An

Thomas C. Taylor Updated 5/17/2011

For the serious student, this exposition of the essentials of Austrian economics is excellent. Taylor discusses all the fundamental aspects of Austrian thought, from subjectivism and marginal utility to inflation and the business cycle. This new and...
The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems

Frank A. Fetter Updated 3/31/2011

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The Concise Guide To Economics

Jim Cox Updated 2/9/2011

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for...
Bureaucracy

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/5/2011

Mises said it right here. In these pages we find the crushing critique of nearly all modern reform movements, summed up in his sweeping conclusion: "The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is...
An Outline of International Price Theory

Chi-Yuen Wu Updated 5/15/2010

Chi-Yuen Wu from China was an Austrian price theorist writing during Mises's own time. His great contribution was this 1939 treatise written while studying at the London School of Economics, under the guidance of Lionel Robbins. Though the author...
The Present State of Austrian Economics

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/12/2010

Murray Rothbard The Present State of Austrian Economics Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
Time Will Run Back

Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/20/2010

Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism. It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in...
The Return to Laisser Faire

Sir Ernest Benn Updated 6/5/2009

Ernest J. P. Benn The Return To Laisser Faire...
Market Theory and the Price System

Israel M. Kirzner Updated 5/27/2009

Israel Kirzner's outstanding book on price theory is back in print. It is been very difficult to obtain it for decades, even though it is surely the best textbook on Austrian price theory ever written. The prose is crystal clear and the organizat...
Essentials of Economic Theory

John Bates Clark Updated 5/26/2009

John Bates Clark was an American adherent of the marginalist school who engaged the Austrians and learned from them. He delivered many blows against the historical school in favor of the idea of pure theory. He was also a prominent advocate of free m...
Production and the Firm

Peter G. Klein Updated 7/30/2008

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Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes

Mario J. Rizzo Updated 11/2/2007

Mario J. Rizzo Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium...
"Ultimate Standard of Value, The"

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 9/28/2007

Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk The Ultimate Standard of Value Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
The Common Sense of Political Economy, Volume 2

Philip H. Wicksteed Updated 9/12/2007

Phillip. H. Wicksteed The Common Sense of Political Economy, vol II...
Interpretations of the Wicksellian Idea

Robert Bradley, Jr. Updated 7/10/2007

Robert Bradley Interpretations of the Wicksellian Idea...
"Shackle: A Critical Sampling"

Don Lavoie Updated 1/15/2007

Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Austrian Theorizing: Recalling the Foundations"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Austrian Theory of the Marginal Use and of Ordinal Marginal Utility, The"

J. H. McCulloch Updated 1/15/2007

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"Subjective Cost Revisited"

William Barnett II Updated 1/15/2007

William Barnett II Subjective Cost Revisited...
"DMVP-MVP Controversy: A Note, The"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

William Barnett II Subjective Cost Revisited Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Subjectivist Roots of James Buchanan's Economics, The"

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 1/15/2007

William Barnett II Subjective Cost Revisited Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Mises on the Evenly Rotating Economy"

J. Patrick Gunning Updated 1/15/2007

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"Certainty and Uncertainty, Or: How Rational Can Our Expectations Be, On?"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Cost and Choice: Austrian vs. Conventional Views"

E.C. Pasour Jr. Updated 1/15/2007

David Osterfeld "Social Utility" and Government Transfers of Wealth: An Austrian Perspective Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Myth of the Income Effect, The"

Pascal Salin Updated 1/15/2007

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"Place of Human Action in the Development of Modern Economic Thought, The"

Joseph T. Salerno Updated 1/15/2007

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"Realist Approach to Equilibrium, A"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"Value, Cost, and Marginal Utility"

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 1/15/2007

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"Reisman on Capitalism"

George Reisman Updated 1/15/2007

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"Response to Reisman on Capitalism"

Alexander Tabarrok Updated 1/15/2007

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"Firms, Strategies, and Resources: Contributions from Austrian Economics"

Peter Lewin Updated 1/15/2007

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"Economic Science and Neoclassicism"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"Misesian Economics and the Response to a Price Change"

Rodolfo Alejo Gonzalez Updated 1/15/2007

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"Equations of Mathematical Economics and the Problem of Economic Calculation in the Socialist State, The"

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/15/2007

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"Management versus Ownership: The Road-Privatization Debate:

Laurent Carnis Updated 1/15/2007

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"Does the Concept of Secular Growth Have a Place in Capital-Based Macroeconomics?"

Joseph T. Salerno Updated 1/15/2007

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"A Critique of the Legal and Philosophical Case for Rent Control"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

Walter Block A Critique of the Legal and Philosophical Case for Rent Control Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows...
"Professor Modigliani on Price Controls: The Baneful Influence of the Perfectly Competitive Model"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Reappraising the Say's Law Controversy, A"

Ivon C. Johnson Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows...
"Ownership, Scarcity, and Economic Decision Making"

Dan Mahoney Updated 1/15/2007

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"Facts and Counterfactuals in Economic Law"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

Joerg Guido Hulsmann Facts and Counterfactuals in Economic Law...
"Spontaneous Order and the Coordination of Economic Activities"

Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Labor Theory of Value: A Critique of Carson's <em>Studies in Mutualist Political Economy</em>"

Robert P. Murphy Updated 1/15/2007

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"Carson's Rejoinders"

Kevin A. Carson Updated 1/15/2007

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