William J. Baumol's “Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive” has become a modern classic in development economics and political economy. With the publication of his paper, Baumol forced the economic profession to pay closer attention to the institutional structure within...

Daniel Klein (Klein 1997, Klein and Orsborn 2009 and Klein and Briggeman forthcoming) and Israel Kirzner (forthcoming) have been engaged in a debate concerning how economists should understand and use the terms “coordination” and “economic goodness”. Klein and Briggeman (forthcoming)...

“Economics,” Ludwig von Mises (1966, 252) famously wrote, “in speaking of entrepreneurs, has in view not men, but a definite function.” The entrepreneurial function is to be the driving force of the market economy. The entrepreneur acts on the basis of changing circumstances in market...