Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition

Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition
ISBN-10
0521637651
ISBN-13
9780521637657
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
198
Language
English
Published
1998-01-28
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Karen I. Vaughn

Description

This book examines the development of the ideas of the new Austrian school from its beginnings in Vienna in the 1870s to the present. It focuses primarily on showing how the coherent theme that emerges from the thought of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig Lachmann, Israel Kirzner and a variety of new younger Austrians is an examination of the implications of time and ignorance (or processes and knowledge) for economic theory.

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