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Authors

• F.A. Hayek 178
  • The Constitution of Liberty (54)
  • Individualism and Economic Order (40)
  • The Sensory Order (26)
  • The Road to Serfdom (15)
  • Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (13)
  • The Fatal Conceit (10)
  • The Counterrevolution of Science (3)
  • Liberalism (3)
  • Law, Legislation, and Liberty (3)
  • “The Moral Imperative of the Market” (3)
  • Monetary Nationalism and International Stability (2)
  • “Competition as a Discovery Procedure” (2)
  • Prices and Production (1)
  • The Pure Theory of Capital (1)
  • Denationalisation of Money (1)
  • “A Free-Market Monetary System” (1)
• Ludwig Lachmann 96
  • Capital, Expectations, and the Market Process (52)
  • Capital and Its Structure (31)
  • The Legacy of Max Weber (13)
• Ludwig Von Mises 96
  • The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (35)
  • Human Action (31)
  • Omnipotent Government (14)
  • Bureaucracy (7)
  • “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth” (4)
  • Planning for Freedom (4)
  • Liberalism in the Classical Tradition (1)
• Georg Simmel 71
  • The Philosophy of Money (71)
• James Buchanan 61
  • The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty (21)
  • Cost and Choice (14)
  • Economics: Between Predictive Science and Moral Philosophy (9)
  • The Calculus of Consent (6)
  • Economic Inquiry and its Logic (4)
  • The Reason of Rules (3)
  • The Demand and Supply of Public Goods (2)
  • Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement (1)
  • The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan (1)
• Bruno Leoni 45
  • Freedom and the Law (36)
  • The Law and Politics (9)
• Milton Friedman 43
  • A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (29)
  • Capitalism and Freedom (7)
  • “Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice” (3)
  • “Lerner on the Economics of Control” (2)
  • “The Methodology of Positive Economics” (1)
  • The Optimum Quantity of Money (1)
• Lawrence White 42
  • Free Banking in Britain (29)
  • Competition and Currency (6)
  • The Clash of Economic Ideas (4)
  • “Skepticism about Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis” (2)
  • The Theory of Monetary Institutions (1)
• Steven Horwitz 42
  • Microfoundations and Macroeconomics (18)
  • “Monetary Exchange as an Extra-Linguistic Social Communication Process” (12)
  • “From The Sensory Order to the Liberal Order: Hayek’s Non-rationalist Liberalism” (5)
  • “Beyond equilibrium economics: reflections on the uniqueness of the Austrian tradition” (4)
  • “Monetary Calculation and Mises’ Critique of Planning” (3)
• George Selgin 41
  • The Theory of Free Banking (17)
  • Praxeology and Understanding (16)
  • “The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States” (4)
  • “Synthetic Commodity Money” (3)
  • “Bank Lending ‘Manias’ in Theory and History” (1)
• Sam Bowles 39
  • A Cooperative Species (39)
• Herbert Gintis 39
  • A Cooperative Species (39)
• Doug North 34
  • Violence and Social Orders (21)
  • Understanding the Process of Economic Change (13)
• Anna Schwartz 33
  • A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (29)
  • “Monetary Policy Regimes and Economic Performance” (4)
• Adam Seligman 32
  • Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (32)
• Robert Weller 32
  • Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (32)
• Michael Puett 32
  • Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (32)
• Bennett Simon 32
  • Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (32)
• W.H. Hutt 30
  • The Theory of Idle Resources (30)
• Richard Wagner 29
  • Mind, Society, and Human Action (12)
  • “Austrian Cycle Theory: Saving the Wheat while Discarding the Chaff” (8)
  • Macroeconomics as Systems Theory (7)
  • “Boom and Bust: The Political Economy of Economic Disorder” (2)
• Barry Weingast 28
  • Violence and Social Orders (21)
  • “The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law” (5)
  • “Adam Smith’s Theory of Violence and the Political Economics of Development” (2)
• Joseph Henrich 22
  • The WEIRDest People in the World (22)
• Roger Garrison 22
  • Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure (18)
  • “Reflections on Reswitching and Roundaboutness” (4)
• John Wallis 21
  • Violence and Social Orders (21)
• Dierdre McCloskey 21
  • The Rhetoric of Economics (20)
  • “Storytelling in Economics” (1)
• Peter Boettke 21
  • Calculation and Coordination (5)
  • “The New Comparative Political Economy” (5)
  • “Beyond equilibrium economics: reflections on the uniqueness of the Austrian tradition” (4)
  • “From The Philosophy of Mind to the Philosophy of the Market” (4)
  • “Rational Choice and Human Agency in Economics and Sociology: Exploring the Weber-Austrian Connection” (2)
  • “Introduction to Handbook on Contemporary Austrian Economics” (1)
• Michael Horton 20
  • Introducing Covenant Theology (16)
  • “Calvin and the Law-Gospel Hermeneutic” (4)
• Roderick Long 19
  • “Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action” (14)
  • “Realism and Abstraction in Economics” (2)
  • “Corporations Versus the Market, or, Whip Conflation Now” (2)
  • “Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis” (1)
• Frank Knight 17
  • “Diminishing Returns from Investment” (7)
  • “Capital, Time, and the Interest Rate” (6)
  • “Intellectual Confusion on Morals and Economics” (4)
• Gerald O'Driscoll 16
  • The Economics of Time and Ignorance (16)
• Mario Rizzo 16
  • The Economics of Time and Ignorance (16)
• Peter Lewin 16
  • Capital in Disequilibrium (16)
• Jason Potts 16
  • The New Evolutionary Microeconomics (16)
• Harold Demsetz 16
  • “The Exchange and Enforcement of Property Rights” (12)
  • “Toward a Theory of Property Rights” (3)
  • “Information and Efficiency” (1)
• Abraham Kuyper 15
  • Lectures on Calvinism (15)
• Yuval Harari 15
  • Sapiens (15)
• Charles Murray 15
  • The Bell Curve (12)
  • Human Accomplishment (3)
• Max Weber 15
  • Economy And Society (9)
  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (6)
• Jonathan Edwards 14
  • Freedom of the Will (9)
  • Concerning the End for which God Created the World (4)
  • A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue (1)
• Richard Niebuhr 13
  • Christ and Culture (13)
• Nicholas Kaldor 13
  • “The Irrelevance of Equilibrium Economics” (13)
• G.L.S. Shackle 13
  • Epistemics and Economics (13)
• Bruce Wexler 13
  • Brain and Culture (13)
• Axel Leijonhufvud 13
  • “Costs and Consequences of Inflation” (11)
  • “Whatever Happened to Keynesian Economics?” (2)
• Israel Kirzner 13
  • How Markets Work (9)
  • Essays on Capital and Interest (3)
  • “Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process” (1)
• John Stuart Mill 12
  • On Liberty (12)
• Anthony De Jasay 12
  • The State (12)
• Richard Herrnstein 12
  • The Bell Curve (12)
• Leland Yeager 12
  • “The Significance of Monetary Disequilibrium” (9)
  • “Essential Properties of the Medium of Exchange” (2)
  • “A Cash-Balance Interpretation of Depression” (1)
• Erwin Dekker 11
  • The Viennese Students of Civilization (11)
• Andy Clark 11
  • Mindware (8)
  • “Language, Embodiment, and the Cognitive Niche” (2)
  • “The Extended Mind” (1)
• Augustine 10
  • City of God (10)
• Michael Tomasello 10
  • Why We Cooperate (10)
• Roy Baumeister 10
  • “Conscious Thought Is for Facilitating Social and Cultural Interactions: How Mental Simulations Serve the Animal–Culture Interface” (10)
• E.J. Masicampo 10
  • “Conscious Thought Is for Facilitating Social and Cultural Interactions: How Mental Simulations Serve the Animal–Culture Interface” (10)
• Armen Alchian 10
  • “Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory” (9)
  • “Why Money?” (1)
• Roger Koppl 10
  • Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations (9)
  • “Does The Sensory Order Have a Useful Economic Future?” (1)
• Chris Knight 9
  • “Puzzles and mysteries in the origins of language” (9)
• Arthur Melzer 9
  • Philosophy Between the Lines (8)
  • “Rousseau and the Modern Cult of Sincerity” (1)
• Gordon Tullock 9
  • The Calculus of Consent (6)
  • “The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft” (2)
  • The Economics of Non-Human Societies (1)
• George Mendenhall 8
  • “Law and Covenant” (8)
• Thomas Sowell 8
  • Knowledge and Decisions (8)
• Ronald Heiner 8
  • “The Origin of Predictable Behavior” (8)
• Perry Mehrling 8
  • “The Inherent Hierarchy of Money” (6)
  • “What Is Monetary Economics About?” (2)
• Ronald Coase 8
  • “The Nature of the Firm” (5)
  • “The Problem of Social Cost” (3)
• Leda Cosmides 8
  • “Evolutionary Psychology, Moral Heuristics, and the Law” (5)
  • “Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence” (3)
• John Tooby 8
  • “Evolutionary Psychology, Moral Heuristics, and the Law” (5)
  • “Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence” (3)
• Martin Luther 7
  • On the Bondage of the Will (7)
• Adam Ferguson 7
  • An Essay on the History of Civil Society (7)
• Henry Rogers 7
  • “An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Jonathan Edwards” (7)
• Aldous Huxley 7
  • Brave New World (7)
• John Rawls 7
  • “Two Concepts of Rules” (7)
• Robert Nozick 7
  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia (7)
• Roy Rappaport 7
  • “The Sacred in Human Evolution” (6)
  • “Ritual, Sanctity, and Cybernetics” (1)
• Frédéric Bastiat 6
  • The Law (6)
• Joseph Schumpeter 6
  • Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (6)
• C.S. Lewis 6
  • A Grief Observed (6)
• Guenther Roth 6
  • Introduction to Economy and Society (6)
• Terry Anderson 6
  • “Privatizing the Commons: An Improvement?” (6)

• Peter Hill 6
  • “Privatizing the Commons: An Improvement?” (6)
• Edward Glaeser 6
  • “The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States” (6)
• Joshua Gottlieb 6
  • “The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States” (6)
• Gabriel Zanotti 6
  • “The Epistemological Implications of Machlups Interpretation of Mises’s Epistemology” (6)
• Nicolás Cachanosky 6
  • “The Epistemological Implications of Machlups Interpretation of Mises’s Epistemology” (6)
• Brian Arthur 6
  • Complexity and the Economy (6)
• Adam Smith 6
  • Lectures on Jurisprudence (4)
  • The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1)
  • The Wealth of Nations (1)
• Michael Mann 5
  • “The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms, and Results” (5)
• Randall Kroszner 5
  • “On The Microfoundations of Money” (5)
• Tom Palmer 5
  • “The Hermeneutical View of Freedom” (5)
• Chris Coyne 5
  • “The New Comparative Political Economy” (5)
• Peter Leeson 5
  • “The New Comparative Political Economy” (5)
• Frederic Sautet 5
  • “The New Comparative Political Economy” (5)
• Don Lavoie 5
  • Rivalry and Central Planning (4)
  • “Economics and Hermeneutics – Intro” (1)
• Jacob Frenkel 5
  • “Purchasing Power Parity: Doctrinal Perspective and Evidence from the 1920s” (3)
  • “Flexible Exchange Rates, Prices, and the Role of “News”: Lessons from the 1970s” (2)
• Elinor Ostrom 5
  • Governing the Commons (3)
  • “Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as Common Pool Resource” (1)
  • “Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems” (1)
• Tyler Cowen 5
  • “The Costs of Cooperation” (3)
  • “Public Goods Definitions and their Institutional Context: A Critique of Public Goods Theory” (1)
  • “Entrepreneurship, Austrian Economics, and the Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry” (1)
• John Locke 4
  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding (4)
• Fritz Malchup 4
  • “The Problem of Verification in Economics” (4)
• John Howard Yoder 4
  • The Politics of Jesus (4)
• David Laidler 4
  • “Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money: A Review Article for Economists” (4)
• Nicholas Rowe 4
  • “Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money: A Review Article for Economists” (4)
• Ralph Rector 4
  • “The Economics of Rationality and the Rationality of Economics” (4)
• Joseph Ostroy 4
  • “The Transactions Role of Money” (4)
• Ross Starr 4
  • “The Transactions Role of Money” (4)
• Ross Levine 4
  • “Financial Development and Economic Growth: Views and Agenda” (4)
• Michael Bordo 4
  • “Monetary Policy Regimes and Economic Performance” (4)
• Robert Subrick 4
  • “From The Philosophy of Mind to the Philosophy of the Market” (4)
• Daniel Kahneman 4
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (4)
• Amotz Zahavi 4
  • “The Fallacy of Conventional Signalling” (3)
  • “Reliability in Communication Systems and the Evolution of Altruism” (1)
• Daniel Klein 4
  • “A Plea to Economists who Favor Liberty” (3)
  • “Mere Libertarianism: Blending Hayek and Rothbard” (1)
• Charles Franklin Dunbar 3
  • “The National Banking System” (3)
• Bronisław Malinowski 3
  • Crime and Custom in Savage Society (3)
• Irving Fisher 3
  • The Theory of Interest (3)
• Philippa Foot 3
  • “Free Will as Involving Determinism” (3)
• Cornelius Van Til 3
  • A Survey of Christian Epistemology (3)
• Richard Timberlake 3
  • “The Significance of Unaccounted Currencies” (3)
• Geoffrey Brennan 3
  • The Reason of Rules (3)
• Arjo Klamer 3
  • “Towards the Native’s Point of View: The Difficulty of Changing the Conversation” (3)
• Paul Johnson 3
  • Modern Times (3)
• John Hasnas 3
  • “The Myth of the Rule of Law” (3)
• Jeffrey Frankel 3
  • “Empirical Research on Nominal Exchange Rates” (3)
• Andrew Rose 3
  • “Empirical Research on Nominal Exchange Rates” (3)
• Oded Galor 3
  • “The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth” (3)
• David Weil 3
  • “The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth” (3)
• Douglas Whitman 3
  • “Hayek Contra Pangloss on Evolutionary Systems” (3)
• Daniel Sutter 3
  • “The Costs of Cooperation” (3)
• Hernando De Soto 3
  • The Mystery of Capital (3)
• Peter Bauer 3
  • From Subsistence To Exchange (3)
• Jan Pavlik 3
  • “Austrian Economics and the Problem of Apriorism” (3)
• Dani Rodrik 3
  • “Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion?” (3)
• Clark Barrett 3
  • “Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence” (3)
• Carl Schmitt 3
  • “Political Theology” (2)
  • Legalität und Legitimität (1)
• Jacob Viner 3
  • “Mr. Keynes on the Causes of Unemployment” (2)
  • “Cost Curves and Supply Curves” (1)
• Gary Becker 3
  • “Competition and Democracy” (2)
  • “Comments on Competition, Monopoly, and the Pursuit of Money” (1)
• Max Stackhouse 3
  • Public Theology and Political Economy (2)
  • “A Protestant Response (in Caesar’s Coin Revisited)” (1)
• Kevin Dowd 3
  • “Currency Competition, Network Externalities, and Switching Costs” (2)
  • The Experience of Free Banking (1)
• Steven Landsburg 3
  • Fair Play (2)
  • The Armchair Economist (1)
• John Piper 3
  • The Future of Justification (2)
  • Martin Luther: Lessons From His Life And Labor (1)
• Daron Acemoglu 3
  • “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development” (1)
  • “Why Not a Political Coase Theorem?” (1)
  • “The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism” (1)
• David Lipscomb 2
  • Civil Government (2)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein 2
  • Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus (2)
• Paul Samuelson 2
  • “Parable and Realism in Capital Theory: The Surrogate Production Function” (2)
• Karl Popper 2
  • “Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject” (2)
• Vincent Ostrom 2
  • The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration (2)
• Robert Lucas 2
  • “Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Tradeoffs” (2)
• Caroline Humphrey 2
  • “Barter and Economic Disintegration” (2)
• Philip Mirowski 2
  • “The Philosophical Bases of Institutionalist Economics” (2)
• Barry Eichengreen 2
  • Golden Fetters (2)
• Gary Miller 2
  • Managerial Dilemmas (2)
• David Greenaway 2
  • “Currency Competition, Network Externalities, and Switching Costs” (2)
• Robert Clower 2
  • “On The Origin of Monetary Exchange” (2)
• J Budziszewski 2
  • What We Can’t Not Know (2)
• Russell Moore 2
  • The Kingdom of Christ (2)
• Sanford Ikeda 2
  • The Dynamics of Interventionism (2)
• Robert Murphy 2
  • “The Labor Theory of Value: A Critique of Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy” (2)
• Jay Richards 2
  • Money, Greed, and God (2)
• James Robinson 2
  • “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development” (1)
  • “The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism” (1)
• Other 55
  • Elizabeth Anderson — “What is the point of equality?” (1)
  • Daniel Bell — “Jiang Qing’s Political Confucianism“ (1)
  • Lawrence Berger — “Self-interpretation, Attention, and Language” (1)
  • William Blake — The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1)
  • Peter Blau — On The Nature of Organizations (1)
  • Robert Boyd — “Is the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma a Good Model of Reciprocal Altruism?” (1)
  • Edmund Burke — A Vindication of Natural Society (1)
  • William Butos — “Does The Sensory Order Have a Useful Economic Future?” (1)
  • Gabriel Carroll — “Robustness in Mechanism Design and Contracting” (1)
  • Napoleon Chagnon — Yąnomamö (1)
  • David Chalmers — “The Extended Mind” (1)
  • Guy Claxton — Intelligence in the Flesh (1)
  • Trevor Coombes — “What Central Banks May Legitimately Do” (1)
  • Keith Crocker — ” Regulation and Administered Contracts Revisited: Lessons from Transaction-Cost Economics for Public Utility Regulation” (1)
  • Stephen Davies — “Why We Need a Liberal Theory of History” (1)
  • Eddie Dekel — “Evolution of Preferences” (1)
  • Albrecht Dihle — The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity (1)
  • Nigel Dodd — The Social Life of Money (1)
  • William Easterly — The Elusive Quest for Growth (1)
  • Jon Elster — “Rationality and the Emotions” (1)
  • Jeffrey Ely — “Evolution of Preferences” (1)
  • Niall Ferguson — The Ascent of Money (1)
  • Frank Fetter — “Recent Discussion of the Capital Concept” (1)
  • Robert Frank — “If Homo Oeconomicus could Choose his Own Utility Function, Would He Choose One with a Conscience?” (1)
  • Charlotte Hess — “Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as Common Pool Resource” (1)
  • John Hicks — Value and Capital (1)
  • David Hume — Treatise of Human Nature (1)
  • Jeffrey Hummel — “Ben Bernanke versus Milton Friedman: The Federal Reserve’s Emergence as the U.S. Economy’s Central Planner” (1)
  • J.R. Hurford — “The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition” (1)
  • Simon Johnson — “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development” (1)
  • Søren Kierkegaard — “Journals and Papers” (1)
  • Finn Kydland — “Business Cycles: Real Facts and a Monetary Myth” (1)
  • Luis Lugo — “Caesar’s Coin Revisited (comments on Man, Society, and the State)” (1)
  • Scott Masten — ” Regulation and Administered Contracts Revisited: Lessons from Transaction-Cost Economics for Public Utility Regulation” (1)
  • Carl Menger — “On The Origin of Money” (1)
  • H Michell — “The Edict of Diocletian: A Study of Price Fixing in the Roman Empire” (1)
  • Joel Mokyr — “Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain” (1)
  • John Nye — “Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain” (1)
  • Edmund Opitz — “The Churches and the United Nations” (1)
  • Rafael La Porta — “Judicial Checks and Balances” (1)
  • Jiang Quing — “From Mind Confucianism to Political Confucianism” (1)
  • Joan Robinson — “The Unimportance of Reswitching” (1)
  • Arthur Robson — “The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior” (1)
  • Alex Salter — “Not All NGDP is Created Equal” (1)
  • Amartya Sen — Development as Freedom (1)
  • James Skillen — “Reformed… And Always Reforming?” (1)
  • Vernon Smith — “Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics” (1)
  • D.W. Stephens — “Discounting and Reciprocity in an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma” (1)
  • Charles Taylor — “The Politics of Recognition” (1)
  • Mark Taylor — “The Economics of Exchange Rates” (1)
  • Alexis De Tocqueville — Democracy In America (1)
  • Chris Wickham — “Consensus and Assemblies in the Romano-Germanic Kingdoms: a Comparative Approach” (1)
  • L Randall Wray — “The Credit Money, State Money, and Endogenous Money Approaches: A Survey and Attempted Integration” (1)
  • Okan Yilankaya — “Evolution of Preferences” (1)
  • Allyn Young — “Increasing Returns and Economic Progress” (1)