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Publication IconThe Social Construction of the Market pdf
October 30, 2009
Working Papers
Virgil Storr

Inspired by Berger and Luckmann’s work The Social Construction of Reality, this paper describes the social construction of the market, specifically focusing on the Austrian understanding of the market as a product of human action, acknowledging that knowledge is socially distributed, and focusing on the subjectively held though socially mediated meanings that actors ascribe to market activity.


Publication IconThe Role of Ideal Types in Austrian Business Cycle Theory pdf
June 29, 2009
Working Papers
Gene Callahan, Steven Horwitz

Publication IconThe Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomic Disorder: An Austrian Perspective on the Great Recession of 2008 pdf
June 22, 2009
Working Papers
Steven Horwitz

Publication IconThe Role of the Economist in Economic Development
July 17, 2006
Journal Articles
Christopher Coyne, Peter Boettke
This paper is a reconsideration of the role of the economist in economic development.

Publication IconSocial Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange - Working Paper pdf
December 1, 2005
Working Papers
Peter Leeson
This working paper models social distance as endogenous to the choices of individuals. Peter Leeson shows that where government is absent, large numbers of socially heterogeneous agents can use social distance-reducing signals to capture the gains from widespread trade.

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