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A Hayekian/Kirznerian Economic History of the Modern World

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I think the history of How I Discovered Kirzner and Friedrich, Not To Speak of Ludwig and Murray, illuminates the trouble that Austrian economics has had against Samuelsonian economics (we commonly call it, defeating ourselves in our rhetoric, “the mainstream”), and how in the end the Austrians can save economics from itself.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. San Diego State University, USA

    Roger Frantz (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. Stanford University, USA

    Robert Leeson (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  3. University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia

    Robert Leeson (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

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McCloskey, D.N. (2013). A Hayekian/Kirznerian Economic History of the Modern World. In: Frantz, R., Leeson, R. (eds) Hayek and Behavioral Economics. Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137278159_2

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