Liberalism against Liberalism : : theoretical analysis of the works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker / / Javier Aranzadi del Cerro.

• VerfasserIn: Cerro, Javier Aranzadi del,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 pages)

The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents of the Chicago School and the last two of the...

Table of Contents

• Two economic approaches to human behaviour in liberalism
• The object of economic study
• The scope of economics
• The characterization of economic behaviour
• The economic approach of Mises : praxeology
• The definition of economic behaviour in the work of Mises
• The structure of the work of Mises
• Development of the subjective theory of value
• The Misian theoretical system
• The Misian methodology
• The structure of the general theory of action of Mises
• Economic act and economic action
• The axiom of action
• The action and the socio-cultural framework
• The praxeological categories : causality and time
• The discovery of means and the creation of possibilities
• Introduction
• Kirzner's pure entrepreneurship
• Development of the concept of pure entrepreneurship
• The scope of pure entrepreneurship in Kirzner's work
• The entrepreneurial function and the socio-cultural framework of individual action
• The market as a social institution
• The evaluative system
• The praxeological relation between ethics and the market
• Private property in praxeology
• Causality as a praxeological category
• Causality in the work of Mises
• The Misian basis of causality
• The Misian determination of the cause
• The project
• The constituents of the project
• The temporal structure of the project
• The structure of the information in the project
• The execution of the project
• The economic approach of Becker : the generalization of homo economicus
• The definition of economic behaviour in the work of Becker
• Introduction
• The extension of the theory of utility
• Becker's theoretical model
• Critical analysis of Becker's definition of economic behaviour : stability of preferences
• The relation between Becker and Friedman
• Critical analysis of the theoretical approach of Becker to human behaviour
• Critical analysis of Beckers definition of economic behaviour : maximizing behaviour and market equilibrium
• The Beckerian explanation of prices
• Critical analysis of the Beckerian theory of prices
• The Austrian explanation of prices
• Conclusions
• Theoretical differences
• Methodological differences.