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Is the Market a Test of Truth and Beauty?

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The title essay is one of the more controversial articles to ever appear in economic literature.
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Is the Market a Test of Truth and Beauty? by Professor Leland B. Yeager

Professor Leland B. Yeager (University of Virginia and Auburn University) is one of the giants of the generation of economists after Ludwig von Mises. He was Mises's student and translator - and has made a lifetime of contributions to policy, theory, method, ethics, and aesthetics from the point of view of a champion of freedom and a deep respect for the Austrian tradition.

This vast but affordable collection is a tribute to the range of his brilliance and erudition, and a reminder that his contributions are enormous. Many of the essays found herein are nearly lost or unavailable. Yeager selected them with an eye toward the essays that most pertain to the Austrian tradition and the moral imperative of the free society.

The title essay is one of the more controversial articles to ever appear in economic literature. It began as a response to the criticism that if Misesian economics were so great, it would be the market leader within the profession. Yeager responds with a general theory of market dominance and its relationship to issues of truth and beauty. He argues that we cannot use the market as the final test to determine aesthetics or the value of truth claims. These must come from outside market analytics.

The essay offers a profound clarification of the role of economics and markets. And it is an archetype of the type of thinking that Yeager has published through his long career. He is an iconoclast, a truly independent thinker with a bold way of approaching core issues. Even where one disagrees, he helps advance careful thinking and rigorous analysis.

The essays are unfailingly interesting, and note that one of them is actually in the language called Interlingua (Yeager briefly served as president of the Interlingua Society). It is probably the first and only English-language book on economics to include such an interesting item.

His many students through the years have hoped for a volume with his most interesting, provocative, and thrilling essays - and it is here at last. This book will more firmly entrench his reputation as a giant within the Austrian oeuvre.

Is the Market a Test of Truth and Beauty?: Essays in Political Economy

538 pages

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Contents:


Introduction

PART I: ECONOMICS


  1. Should Austrians Scorn General Equilibrium Theory?
  2. Why Subjectivism?
  3. Henry George and Austrian Economics
  4. The Debate about the Efficiency of a Socialist Economy
  5. The Debate over Calculation and Knowledge
  6. Austrian Economics, Neoclassicism, and the Market Test
  7. Is the Market a Test of Truth and Beauty?
  8. Macroeconomics and Coordination
  9. The Keynesian Heritage in Economics
  10. Hutt and Keynes
  11. The Image of the Gold Standard
  12. Land, Money, and Capital Formation
  13. Tacit Preachments are the Worst Kind
  14. Tautologies in Economics and the Natural Sciences

PART II: POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY


  1. Free Will and Ethics
  2. Elementos del Economia Politic
  3. Is There a Bias Toward Overregulation?
  4. Economics and Principles
  5. American Democracy Diagnosed
  6. Civic Religion Reasserted
  7. A Libertarian Case for Monarchy
  8. Uchronia, or Alternative History
  9. Hayek on the Psychology of Socialism and Freedom
  10. Kirzner on the Morality of Capitalist Profit
  11. Mises and His Critics on Ethics, Rights, and Law
  12. The Moral Element in Mises’s Human Action
  13. Can a Liberal Be an Egalitarian?
  14. Rights, Contract, and Utility in Policy Espousal

Index

ISBN 9781610161886
eISBN 9781610164214
Publisher LvMI
Publication Date 06/08/2011
Binding PB
Page Length 538
Dimensions 4.25 x 7

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