Libertarian Papers
Author:
Nicolai J. Foss
Peter G. Klein
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[Originally published in Libertarian Papers 1, 39 (2009) ] As the transaction cost theory of the firm was taking shape in the 1970s, another important movement in economics was emerging: a revival of the “Austrian” tradition in economic theory associated with such economists as Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek (1973; Dolan, 1976; Spadaro, 1978).