Liberalism against liberalism
Subtitle: theoretical analysis of the works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker
By: Javier Aranzadi.
Series: Foundations of the market economy; Foundations of the market economy series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Free enterprise.; Liberalism.; Austrian school of economics.; Chicago school of economics.; Economics.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Economic approaches to human behaviour in liberalism; value: The object of economic study; value: The scope of economics; value: The characterization of economic behaviour; value: The economic approach of Mises: praxeology; value: The definition of economic behaviour in the work of Mises; value: The structure of work of Mises; value: Development of the subjective theory of value; value: The misian theoretical system; value: The misian methodology; value: The structure of the general theory of action of Mises; value: Economic act and economic action; value: The axiom of action; value: The action and the socio-cultural framework; value: The praxeological categories: causality and time; value: The discovery of means and the creation of possibilities; value: Introduction; value: Kirzners pure entrepreneurship; value: Development of the concept of pure entrepreneurship; value: The scope of pure entrepreneurship in Kirzner's work; value: The entrepreneurial function and the socio-cultural framework of individual action; value: The market as a social institution; value: The evaluative system; value: The praxeological relation between ethics and the market; value: Private property in praxeology; value: Causality as a praxeological category; value: Causality in the work of Mises; value: The misian basis of causality; value: The misian determination of the cause; value: The project; value: The constituents of the project; value: The temporal structure of the project; value: The structure of the information in the project; value: The execution of the project; value: The economic approach of Becker: the generalization of homo economicus; value: The definition of economic behaviour in the work of Becker; value: Introduction; value: The extension of the theory of utility; value: Becker's theoretical model; value: Critical analysis of Beckers definition of economic behaviour: stability of preferences; value: The relation between Becker and Friedman; value: Critical analysis of the theoretical approach of Becker to human behaviour; value: Critical analysis of Beckers definition of economic behaviour: maximizing behaviour and market equilibrium; value: The beckerian explanation of prices; value: Critical analysis of the beckerian theory of prices; value: The Austrian explanation of prices; value: Conclusions; value: Theoretical differences; value: Methodological differences.