You can lead a neoclassical to Austrian waters, but you can't make him drink. Sherwin Rosen, a distinguished Chicago School economist, thinks that gains from trade between neoclassical and Austrian economics are possible.
Even when compared with other works of philosophy, this is an odd book. Readers who have been spared much acquaintance with contemporary moral philosophy will be inclined to toss the book away when they learn its central thesis.
You can lead a neoclassical to Austrian waters, but you can't make him drink. Sherwin Rosen, a distinguished Chicago School economist, thinks that gains from trade between neoclassical and Austrian economics are possible.
G.A. Cohen is my favorite Marxist. He takes libertarian-political theory with extreme seriousness, and again and again he makes points devastating to socialism.G.A.
ohn Robbins begins with an excellent idea, but unfortunately his book does not fulfill the promise of his initial project.
Let me set readers' minds at ease. As most people will have heard, our distinguished author has recently found the gender in which he was born overly confining.
For once a publisher's blurb does not exaggerate. The Economics of Time and Ignorance has indeed been "one of the seminal works in modern Austrian economics" and the book's welcome reissue, with a new introduction, offers an opportunity for its examination here.
A familiar Austrian criticism of mainstream neoclassical economics is that it lacks touch with reality.
This book gets off to a bad start. The editor, David L. Prychitko, ardently supports a particular sort of interpretation theory, hermeneutics, particularly as developed by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur.
As any reader in the tradition will know, Austrian economics has deep links to philosophy.
