The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly power because of licensing restrictions or because they are government bureaucrats protected from both competition and the...

Austrian economics and entrepreneurial studies have both expanded greatly in the last twenty or thirty years. Unfortunately, they have developed more or less independently of each other. Austrian economics has enjoyed a revival since 1973 or 1974. In 1973, Israel Kirzner published his classic...

The cognitive sciences, having emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, are recently experiencing a spectacular renewal which cannot leave unaffected any discipline that deals with human behavior. The primary motivation for our project has been to weigh up the impact that this...

Economics evolving : an introduction to the volume / Roger Koppl -- Hayeks theory of the mind / Brian J. Loasby -- Is homo economicus / C. Athena Aktipis, Robert O. Kurzban -- Austrian economics, evolutionary psychology, and methodological dualism : subjectivism reconsidered / Viktor J. Vanberg...

An evaluation of environmental life cycle assessment / Frank S. Arnold -- Methods and metaphors in capital theory / Peter Lewin -- Ludwig Von Mises on inflation and expectations / Joseph T. Salerno -- The influence of Frederic Bastiat / Murray N. Rothbard -- Sciences of political lies, or...

Introduction / Roger Koppl -- The research program of Austrian economics / Lawrence H. White -- Hayek vs. Hayek : a defence of moderate trade union activity / Torsten Niechoj -- Analogous models of complexity : the Austrian theory of capital and Hayek's theory of cognition as adaptive...

Leading scholars consider Austrian economics from several perspectives such as characteristic themes of entrepreneurship and uncertainty, scientific methods such as mathematical complexity theory and experimental economics, and historical contexts such as pre-war Vienna and post-war France....

In almost every corner of our private and public lives we rely on experts to advise us. This important species of labor is getting increasing attention from economists, who are beginning to learn how to apply their tools and assumptions to the problem of expertise. Under what conditions of...

The term the "Entangled political economy" was first coined by economist Richard E. Wagner of George Mason University who challenged the "additive" political economy paradigm with his "entangled political economy," which sees public and private entities as equal and entwined players in exchange...