What is so Austrian about Austrian Economics?

What is so Austrian about Austrian Economics?
ISBN-10
085724261X
ISBN-13
9780857242617
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2010-08-12
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing
Authors
Steven Horwitz, Roger Koppl, Pierre Desrochers

Description

The volume gathers together papers presented at the second biennial Wirth conference on Austrian economics, held in October 2008 when the crisis of Fall 2008 was still new and shocking. This coincidence of timing makes policy issues and crisis management a kind of leitmotif of the volume.

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