Austrian Economics : The Next Generation.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editor's Introduction: Austrian Economics: the Next Generation -- References -- CHAPTER 1: Austrian Economics is Alive and Growing: Retrospect and Prospect -- The Rebirth Generation - Methodology -- The Entrepreneur, Subjectivism, and Disequilibrium -- Institutions -- Prospect -- References -- CHAPTER 2: Praxeology, History, and the Perils of Historicism1 -- The Sciences of Human Action -- Catallactics and Thymology -- Verstehen and the Challenge of Historicism -- Weber, Mises and the "ideal Type" -- Conclusions -- References -- CHAPTER 3: The Socialist Calculation Debate and its Normative Implications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic Calculation: an Overview -- 3. Economic Calculation, Human Flourishing, and Discovery -- 4. The Normative Implications of Economic Calculation for Capitalism -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 4: Toward a Market Epistemology of the Platform Economy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Platform Economics -- 2.1. Technological Platforms -- 2.2. Economic Platforms -- 2.3. Platforms as Institutional-Organizational Elements -- 3. Market Epistemology of Platforms -- 3.1. The Epistemic-Institutional Dimensions of Platforms -- 3.1.1. Diffuse Private Knowledge -- 3.1.2. Actionable Contextual Knowledge -- 3.1.3. Platform as Discovery Process: New Knowledge Creation -- 3.2. Construction of Shared Meaning in Platforms -- 3.3. Epistemic-Institutional Consequences of Platforms -- 3.3.1. Decentralized Coordination for Mutual Benefit -- 3.3.2. Innovation and Experimentation -- 3.3.3. Error Correction -- 4. Application: Electricity Distribution Platform for Distributed Energy -- 4.1. Historical Background -- 4.2. An Electricity Distribution Platform Model -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 5: Austrian Economics as an Evolutionary Science -- Neo-schumpeterians -- Institutionalists.

The Austrians -- Final Remarks -- References -- CHAPTER 6: Robust Against Whom? -- Rpe, Public Choice and Austrian Economics -- The Critics -- An Alternative Critique -- The Socially Situated Agent -- The Even "Worse" Agent -- Institutional Implications -- Objections -- The Minimal State Symmetry Defense -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 7: The Role of Culture, Information, and Expectations in Police Self-Governance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interjurisdictional Competition and the Policing Problem -- 3. A Culture of Enforcement -- 4. The Real Effects of Expectations -- 5. The Importance and Limits of (External) Information -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 8: The Spontaneous Order of Politics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Traditional Approaches -- 2.1. Standard Public Choice -- 2.2. Standard Austrian Approach -- 2.3. Overlap Between the Two Approaches -- 3. Politics as an Emergent Phenomenon -- 4. Tax Code Complexity -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- References -- CHAPTER 9: Principles of the Austrian Tradition in the Policy Cycle -- A Rose by any other Name… -- Spaces for Austrian Economics in Policy Making -- The Social Construction of Public Policy Issues -- Policy Process, Austrian Economics, and the Division of Intellectual Labor: a Broader Agenda -- References -- Impact Assessment Guidelines and Documents -- CHAPTER 10: The Fall and Rise of Inequality: Disaggregating Narratives -- The Great Leveling, Its Reversal and Disaggregation -- The Role of Geography, Race, Gender and Immigration to 1970 -- The Role of Geography, Immigration and Race Since 1970 -- The Implications of Disaggregation -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 11: The Challenges Facing Evidence-Based Policy Making in Canadian Agriculture -- Introduction -- The State of Application of Evidence-based Policy Making in Canada.

Evaluation of Research Methods in Evidence-based Policy Making -- Market and Non-market Failure Approach to Evidence-based Policy Making -- Insights from the Economic Calculation Debate -- Illustration of the Non-market Failure Approach to Evidence-based Policy: Ontario Rural Land Use Policy -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- About the Editors.

This book brings together emerging and established scholars to explore the insights that can be gleaned from applying Austrian economics to a range of different topics and a variety of related disciplines, from history to politics to public policy.

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