[From Property, Freedom and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe .] “If we know nothing about a thing, we cannot say anything about its probability.” – Richard von Mises In a recent paper, “The Limits of Numerical Probability: Frank H. Knight and Ludwig von Mises and the Frequency Interpretation,” Hans-Hermann Hoppe explores Mises’s
Oliver Williamson’s Nobel Prize , shared with Elinor Ostrom, is great news for Austrians. Williamson’s pathbreaking analysis of how alternative organizational forms — markets, hierarchies, and hybrids, as he calls them — emerge, perform, and adapt has defined the modern field of organizational economics. Williamson is no Austrian, but he is
In my exchange with Roderick Long on government and the corporation I made two basic points. First, the corporate form of organization is indeed imperfect, as “left-libertarians” point out, but so are all forms of organization, including networks of independent contractors, worker-owned cooperatives, household production, and so on. Each has
If you’ve never read Bob Higgs’s brilliant Crisis and Leviathan (Oxford, 1987), you’re missing one of the great social-science books of our time. Higgs demonstrates, in meticulous detail, how the growth of the American state in the twentieth century has followed a regular pattern: a national or international “crisis,” real or imagined, followed by
El Premio Nobel de Oliver Williamson , compartido con Elinor Ostrom, es una gran noticia para los austriacos. El innovador análisis de Williamson sobre cómo las formas de organización alternativas — mercados, jerarquías e híbridos, como él las llama — emergen, se desempeñan y se adaptan, ha definido el campo moderno de la economía organizacional.
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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