Intro -- Half Title: Modern Applications of Austrian Thought -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- A General economics and teaching -- 1 The applied economics of the modern Austrian school -- B Schools of economic thought and methodology -- 2 F.A. Hayek's methodological U-turn reconsidered in light of his concept of social facts -- D Microeconomics -- 3 The consumer in Austrian economics and the Austrian perspective on consumer policy -- E Macroeconomics and monetary economics -- 4 Austrian cycle theory and the prospect of a coordinationist macroeconomics -- G Financial economics -- 5 Big Players and money demand -- H Public economics -- 6 Taxation: an Austrian approach -- 7 Some aspects of the relationship between the Freiburg school and the Austrian school -- I Health, education, and welfare -- 8 A model of the dynamic welfare state -- 9 Austrian aspects to health economics -- J Labor and demographic economics -- 10 Austrian theory in the area of labor economics -- L Industrial organization -- 11 Neo-Austrian, industrial and Ordo-Austrian competition policy -- M Business administration and business economics -- marketing -- accounting -- 12 Discovery, competence and services -- N Economic history -- 13 Werner Sombart's views on profit, capital, credit, and the Austrian school of economics -- O Economic development, technological change, and growth -- 14 Austrian economics and 'The Other Canon' -- P Economic systems -- 15 The property rights basis of von Mises's critique of socialism and its relevance for the privatization of state enterprises in Eastern Europe -- 16 Comparative economic systems -- Q Agricultural and natural re sourceeconomics -- environmental and ecological economics -- 17 Austrian views on environmental protection -- Index.

Austrian economics is often criticized as being hostile to empirical research and seen purely as an ideology. In contrast, the purpose of this book is to show that Austrian economics provides an interesting approach to most conceivable subjects in economics. Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus, this comprehensive volume includes Austrian analysis of: health economics labour economics taxation business cycle theory property rights. Contributors include Roger Koppl, Bart Nooteboom, Larry Moss, Dick Wagner and Gerrit Meijer, and this significant book will prove invaluable to students of economics and will make interesting reading for applied economists in any area of application.

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