Liberalism against liberalism
By: Javier Aranzadi.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Free enterprise; Liberalism; Austrian school of economics; Chicago school of economics; Economics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
Table of contents: title: Economic approaches to human behaviour in liberalism; title: The object of economic study; title: The scope of economics; title: The characterization of economic behaviour; title: The economic approach of Mises: praxeology; title: The definition of economic behaviour in the work of Mises; title: The structure of work of Mises; title: Development of the subjective theory of value; title: The misian theoretical system; title: The misian methodology; title: The structure of the general theory of action of Mises; title: Economic act and economic action; title: The axiom of action; title: The action and the socio-cultural framework; title: The praxeological categories: causality and time; title: The discovery of means and the creation of possibilities; title: Introduction; title: Kirzners pure entrepreneurship; title: Development of the concept of pure entrepreneurship; title: The scope of pure entrepreneurship in Kirzner's work; title: The entrepreneurial function and the socio-cultural framework of individual action; title: The market as a social institution; title: The evaluative system; title: The praxeological relation between ethics and the market; title: Private property in praxeology; title: Causality as a praxeological category; title: Causality in the work of Mises; title: The misian basis of causality; title: The misian determination of the cause; title: The project; title: The constituents of the project; title: The temporal structure of the project; title: The structure of the information in the project; title: The execution of the project; title: The economic approach of Becker: the generalization of homo economicus; title: The definition of economic behaviour in the work of Becker; title: Introduction; title: The extension of the theory of utility; title: Becker's theoretical model; title: Critical analysis of Beckers definition of economic behaviour: stability of preferences; title: The relation between Becker and Friedman; title: Critical analysis of the theoretical approach of Becker to human behaviour; title: Critical analysis of Beckers definition of economic behaviour: maximizing behaviour and market equilibrium; title: The beckerian explanation of prices; title: Critical analysis of the beckerian theory of prices; title: The Austrian explanation of prices; title: Conclusions; title: Theoretical differences; title: Methodological differences.