Jurgen G. Backhaus (ed.)

Modern Applications of Austrian Thought

Herausgeber: Backhaus, Jürgen G

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Austrian economics is often criticized as being hostile to empirical research and seen purely as an ideology. In contrast, the purpose of this book is to show that Austrian economics provides an interesting approach to most conceivable subjects in economics. Edited by JA1/4rgen G. Backhaus, this comprehensive volume includes Austrian analysis of: * health economics * labour economics * taxation * business cycle theory * property rights. Contributors include Roger Koppl, Bart Nooteboom, Larry Moss, Dick Wagner and Gerrit Meijer, and this significant book will prove invaluable to students of economics and will make interesting reading for applied economists in any area of application.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 159mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780415365420
• ISBN-10: 0415365422
• Artikelnr.: 21452934

Autorenporträt

Jürgen G. Backhaus holds the Krupp Foundation Chair of Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at the University of Erfurt in Germany. He is also the founding editor of the European Journal of Law and Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Applied Economics of the Modern Austrian School 2. F.A.
Hayek's Methodological U-Turn Reconsidered in Light of his Concept of
Social Facts 3. The Consumer in Austrian Economics and the Austrian
Perspective on Consumer Policy 4. Austrian Cycle Theory and the Prospect of
a Coordinationist Macroeconomics 5. Big Players and Money Demand: The case
of the demand for money 6. Taxation: An Austrian approach 7. Some Aspects
of the Relationship between the Freiburg School and the Austrian School 8.
A Model of the Dynamic Welfare State - Friedrich von Hayek Revisited 9.
Austrian Aspects to Health Economics 10. Austrian Theory in the Area of
Labor Economics 11. Neo-Austrian, Industrial and Ordo-Austrian Competition
Policy 12. Discovery, Competence and Services 13. Werner Sombart's Views on
Profit, Capital, Credit and the Austrian School of Economics 14. Austrian
Economics and 'The Other Canon': The Austrians between the
activistic-idealistic and the passivistic-materialistic traditions of
economics 15. The Property Rights Basis of vond Mises' Critique of
Socialism and the Privatisation in Eastern Europe 16. Comparative Economic
Systems 17. Property Rights and Environmental Protection in Austrian and
Neo-Austrian Theory