Volume 3, No. 1 (Spring 2000) Persons with an Austrian perspective must evaluate the probability that an Austrian message will reduce their publication chances in mainstream journals. S ince historically the discrimination against Austrian scholarship has been high, a new Austrian academic infrastructure has emerged. We have a Dual Academy:
Volume 3, No. 1 (Spring 2000) It is much more likely that firsthand inspection by journal editors and reviewers who are relatively more familiar with the subject matter in question will place an appropriate value on the prospective scholarly contributions. The values will be reflected by the quality of journal that publishes each
Volume 3, No. 1 (Spring 2000) What the author objects to is assertions about morality linked to misconceptions and word games concerning money and its functions, property, and titles. Modern money does not consist and does not pretend to consist of commodities. Ban knotes , demand deposits, and the new means of payment being multiplied by
Volume 3, No. 2 (Summer 2000) Both the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Review of Austrian Economics are now publishing regularly and have been doing so ever since their respective inceptions. These periodicals have featured path breaking research from dozens of Austrians, and have managed to attract the contributions
Volume 3, No. 3 (Fall 2000) While criticizing the behavior of Austrian economists, Laband and Tollison assert that their purpose is not to “knock” Austrian economics. However, even though they assert that Austrian economics has failed the academic “market test,” they never explain just what it is that makes the Austrian paradigm such a
Volume 3, No. 3 (Fall 2000) In this Journal of Spring 2000, Robert Tollison joins David Laband in reiterating a stretched conception of market test. Laband and Tollison recommend grading academic performance by the sorts of statistics that Laband compiles, which involve article and page counts, impressions of journal quality and
Volume 6, No. 2 (Summer 2003) In sum, Economics and Culture is a serious attempt to bring economic analysis to bear on cultural issues. It is a fine survey of the cultural economics literature and makes a number of good isolated insights regarding the survival of culture. However, these strengths are ultimately more than offset by ambiguous
Volume 7, No. 3 (Fall 2004) Quarter Notes and Banknotes is a genuinely interdisciplinary book and shows that an economic perspective can illuminate our understanding of the development of classical music. Unfortunately the book is not interdisciplinary enough. When Scherer wanders away from his chosen fields of economics and music, he
Volume 7, No. 3 (Fall 2004) The Bias Against Guns is overall a less technical book than More Guns, Less Crime, but in its later chapters, quite a few portions are still way over the heads of most laypersons (Poisson regressions and all). Bias seeks to explain why the costs of gun ownership to society are emphasized by the government and
Volume 10, No. 1 (Spring 2007) The efficacy of the decentralized market process is perhaps the foremost contribution of Austrian economics. But if Austrians are correct about the performance of spontaneous order processes, the paucity of Austrian economists in academic positions seemingly undermines their methodological critique of neoclassical
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