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Subject: Welfare-Efficiency-and-the-Law: 71 records

Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

Jesus Huerta de Soto Updated 4/4/2012

3rd Edition - Updated and revised. The three years since the publication of the previous English edition of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles have seen a continuation of the economic recession process set in motion after the 2007 financia...
An Economic Review of the Patent System

Fritz Machlup Updated 3/16/2012

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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...
Efficiency and Externalities in an Open-Ended Universe

Roy Cordato Updated 11/29/2011

The problem of externalities and efficiency is cited relentlessly in mainstream literature as the great rationale for government intervention. The Austrian School, however, rooted in an understanding of the competitive process, takes another approach...
The Underground Economy

Hans F. Sennholz Updated 11/10/2011

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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...
The Ethics of Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/29/2011

Murray Rothbard's greatest contribution to the politics of freedom is back in print. Following up on Mises's demonstration that a society without private property degenerates into economic chaos, Rothbard shows that every interference with pr...
The Law

Frederic Bastiat Updated 5/17/2011

How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues...
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...
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...
"Coase and Kelo: Omnious Parallels and a Reply to Lott on Rothbad on Coase"

Walter Block Updated 5/5/2008

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"Does Justice Qualify as an Economic Good?: A Böhm-Bawerkian Perspective"

Gael J. Campan Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Justice of Economic Efficiency"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

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"'Social Utility' and Government Transfers of Wealth: An Austrian Perspective"

David Osterfeld Updated 1/15/2007

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"Toward a Deconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics"

David Gordon Updated 1/15/2007

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"Pareto Rule and Welfare Economics, The"

Jeffrey M. Herbener Updated 1/15/2007

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"Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Free Rider as a Basis for Government Intervention"

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

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"Anarchism and the Public Goods Issue: Law, Courts, and the Police

David Osterfeld Updated 1/15/2007

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"Corporate Raiders and Junk-Car Dealers: Economics and Politics of the Merger Controversy"

James Rolph Edwards Updated 1/15/2007

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"Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency and the Problem of Central Planning"

Edward Stringham Updated 1/15/2007

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"A Better Red: The Transition from Communism to Coca-Cola in Romania"

Frank Hefner Updated 1/15/2007

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"Winners, Losers, and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology by Stan Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis"

D.T. Armentano Updated 1/15/2007

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"Human Action and Socially-Optimal Conservation: A Misesian Inquiry into the Hotelling Principle"

John Bratland Updated 1/15/2007

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"To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice by Bruce L. Benson"

Laurent Carnis Updated 1/15/2007

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"Economic Science and Neoclassicism"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"Deveopment as Freedom by Amartya Sen"

David Gordon 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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"Fire and Smoke: Government, Lawsuits and the Rule of Law by Michael I. Krauss"

Bill Pryor Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Impact of Transfer Payments on Economics Growth: John Stuart Mill versus Ludwig von Mises"

Lowell Gallaway Updated 1/15/2007

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"'Alternative Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation' by Clifford Winston and Chad Shirley"

Laurent Carnis Updated 1/15/2007

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"Property, Causality, and Liability"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Public Goods and Private Solutions in Maritime History"

Larry J. Sechrest Updated 1/15/2007

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"Toward an Austrian Theory of Environmental Economics"

Roy Cordato Updated 1/15/2007

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"A Critique of Mises's Theory of Monopoly Prices"

Diana Costea Updated 1/15/2007

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"Bankruptcy as an Economic Intervention"

Lawrence H. White Updated 1/15/2007

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"Pareto Optimality in Policy Espousal"

Leland B. Yeager Updated 1/15/2007

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"Conservation, "X-Inefficiency" and Efficient Use of Natural Resources"

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

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"Pareto Optimality, External Benefits and Public Goods: A Subjectivist Approach"

Barry P. Brownstein Updated 1/15/2007

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"Efficiency vs Ethics: Which is the Proper Decision Criterion in Law Cases?"

Roger A. Arnold Updated 1/15/2007

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"Patents and Copyrights: Do the Benefits Exceed the Costs?"

Julio H. Cole Updated 1/15/2007

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"Praxeology as Law & Economics"

Josef Sima Updated 1/15/2007

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"Editorial on Special Symposium Issue: Austrian Law and Economics"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"Pitfalls of the Classical School of Crime"

Laurent Carnis Updated 1/15/2007

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"Praxeology, Economics, and Law: Issues and Implications"

Larry J. Sechrest Updated 1/15/2007

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"The A Priori Foundations of Property Economics"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"Property, Causality, and Liability"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Causation and Aggression"

Stephan Kinsella Updated 1/15/2007

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"Toward a Calculational Theory and Policy of Intergenerational Sustainability"

John Bratland Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Role of the Economist in Economic Development"

Christopher J. Coyne Updated 1/15/2007

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