Murray N. Rothbard The Making of an Austrian Economist

Index

INDEX

Compiled by Roger E. Bissell

Abbott, Lawrence, 153

action axiom, 2, 15, 38–39, 45–46, 52, 93. See also assumptions of economic theory; deductive method; human action; praxeology

human existence, 38, 40, 53, 143

Alchian, Armen A., 142, 148, 152

Allen, Clark Lee, 138, 141

American Economic Association, 9

assumptions of economic theory, 2, 31, 38–42, 45–47, 55, 93, 95, 140. See also action axiom; deductive method; praxeology

Aristotelian, 40

Kantian, 40

Austrian-libertarian tradition, 71–73, 104, 109

Austrian School, 2–3, 23–24, 28, 53, 70–72, 109, 133, 138, 153, 161

economics, 3–7, 22–25, 29–31, 41, 70, 73, 78, 97, 100, 104, 115, 121, 126, 128, 133, 138, 141, 143, 150, 169

economists and institutions, 2–4, 6, 28, 42, 47, 51, 56, 94, 112, 115, 135, 141, 145, 149–52, 155, 160–61

vs. neoclassical, 28–29, 76, 82–83, 99, 152

Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT). See under business cycle theory

Babushkin, Raya, 7. See also David Rothbard

Bach, George Leland, 30

Bacon, Francis, 11. See also Institutionalist School

banking theory, 9. See also business cycle theory; deflation; inflation; monetary theory

fractional-reserve, 37, 124, 129, 150

Bauer, P. T., 157

Baumol, William J., 103

Baxter, W. T., 127–28

Beckhart, Benjamin H., 9, 32

Bergson, Abram, 90, 93

Bernardelli, Harro E., 47–49

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, 71, 79, 100, 155. See also Böhm-Bawerkian economics; capital theory; capitalist-entrepreneur

capital theory, 2, 23, 80–81, 84, 87, 145, 168

capitalist-entrepreneur, 74, 89–90

interest theory, 80–82, 168

Marshall, 23, 74–75

Marx, 153

Mises, 24, 52, 56–57, 74, 80

monetary theory, 56–57

price theory, 52–53, 64

Stigler, 70

Böhm-Bawerkian economics, 5, 63. See also Böhm-Bawerk; capital theory; capitalist-entrepreneur

capitalist-entrepreneur, 63, 77, 98

general equilibrium, 75, 113, 164

interest theory, 63, 98–99

Bowman, Mary Jean, 30

Brown, Harry Gunnison, 113

Brunner, Karl, 147–48

Buchanan, James M., 138, 141, 150

Burns, Arthur F., 8–11, 14, 17–18, 97, 139, 154

Council of Economic Advisers, 134

critiques of orthodox theory, 10, 17–19, 97–98, 134

Dorfman, 21, 31, 134

business cycle theory, 118, 120, 124, 153. See also deflation; inflation

Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT), 101, 117–18, 122–23, 125, 129, 148–49, 169

Chicago School, 119–20, 149–50

Currency School, 120–21

endogenous theories, 118–21, 124, 129

exogenous theories, 65, 67, 74, 116, 118, 120–26

Hayek vs. Keynes, 23–24, 122–23, 126, 153

Institutionalist, 118–20

Cambridge University, 17

capitalist-entrepreneur, 5, 63, 74–75, 77–80, 85–87, 89–91, 93, 95, 98–99, 107–108, 111–13, 116, 127, 143–44, 168. See also Böhm-Bawerkian economics

capital theory,

Austrian, 84, 128, 168

Böhm-Bawerk, 23, 80, 98

Fetter, 30–31

Hayek, 3, 24

Kirzner, 145

Chamberlin, Edward H., 16, 64, 97. See also under competition and monopoly theory

Chicago School, 4, 6, 70, 84, 92, 119–20, 128–29, 133, 138–41, 145–51. See also Friedman; Marshallian economics; Stigler

modern, 10, 23–24, 41, 70

William Volker Fund, 22, 41, 140–42, 150

Chodorov, Frank, 17–19, 39

Clark, John Maurice, 9, 16, 153

Coase, R. H., 92

Colberg, Marshall R., 138, 141

Columbia University, 5, 7–8, 16, 19, 24, 28, 134, 138, 157, 164

Rothbard, 2, 5, 7–12, 17, 21, 25, 28–29, 62, 64, 70, 90, 100, 118, 159–60, 164

competition and monopoly theory, 10, 142, 157, 168

consumer sovereignty, 94

dynamic process, 97–99, 153

Marshall, 96

monopolistic competition revolution, 16, 64, 96

monopolistic or imperfect, 10, 16, 94, 96–98

older neoclassical, 63–64, 94–95, 99

perfect, 96–99, 144

consumer theory, 5. See also production theory; supply and demand; utility theory

demand, 49, 52–54, 58–59, 62

functions, 17–19, 146–47

time preference, 13, 68–69, 81, 83, 86, 89, 98, 116–17, 121, 123–24, 127–28, 154

welfare economics, 35–37

Cornell University, 158

Cornuelle, Herbert C., 25, 30, 71, 151

Cornuelle, Richard C., 71–73, 112, 135–36

cost curves. See competition and monopoly theory; Marshallian economics

Council of Economic Advisers, 134

Currency School. See under business cycle theory; market equilibrium theory

Davidson, Eugene, 25

deductive method, 11–12, 14, 46, 72. See also action axiom; assumptions of economic theory; economic laws; praxeology

deflation, credit contraction. See also business cycle theory; inflation; monetary policy

Great Depression, 149–50

necessary process, 101, 126–29

praxeological category, 125

demand curves. See consumer theory; supply and demand

Dorfman, Joseph, 9–10, 134

Burns, 21, 31, 134

Institutionalist, 19–21

Dorfman, Robert, 152

Earhart Foundation, 4, 23, 136

econometrics, 43–44, 152. See also mathematical models; neoclassical synthesis; positivism

economic calculation, 13, 25, 56–57, 63, 87, 90, 93, 99, 101–103, 115–17, 124, 131

economic laws, 12, 38, 42, 45, 57, 76, 92, 97. See also deductive method; praxeology; price theory

law of consumer action in a market economy, 59

law of costs, 74, 79. See also Böhm-Bawerkian economics; revenues and costs

law of demand, 54, 58. See also supply and demand; consumer theory

law of incidence, 113. See also taxation

law of interrelation of consumers’ goods, 59

law of investment decision, 69, 78. See also Böhm-Bawerkian economics; capitalist-entrepreneur

law of marginal utility, 27, 45–46, 48–49, 52–53, 58, 62. See also means-ends relationship; utility theory

law of price formation, 56

law of returns, 41

law of total utility, 48–49, 62. See also means-ends relationship; utility theory

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 134

equilibrium theory. See market equilibrium theory

evenly rotating economy (ERE). See under market equilibrium theory

Facey, Edward C., 78

Federal Reserve System, 8–9, 147, 149. See also banking theory; business cycle theory; inflation; monetary policy

Fetter, Frank A., 30, 53, 63, 67, 71, 80–82, 85, 87–88, 99, 123, 155. See also capital theory; interest theory

firm, theory of. See competition and monopoly theory; Marshallian economics

Fisher, Irving, 9–10, 32, 34–35, 82, 119, 133, 139, 146–47. See also business cycle theory; Chicago School; Friedman; interest theory; monetary theory

Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), 5, 7, 22, 24–25, 37, 73, 135–37, 154, 158, 161

Friedman, Milton, 6, 8, 10, 22, 136, 138, 149–50, 153. See also Chicago School; Fisher; Knight; monetary theory; Stigler

monetary theory, 119, 133, 146–50, 153

positivism, 14, 139–41

general equilibrium theory. See market equilibrium theory; Walras; Walrasian economics

Gilbert, Geoffrey, 93

Goodrich, Carter, 134

Gordon, David, 166

government expenditures, 101, 113–15, 154

grant of monopolistic privilege, 68, 110–11, 192

Greaves, Bettina Bien, 146, 166–67

Haberler, Gottfried, 122

Hamilton, Earl J., 50, 104

Harper, F. A., 158–59, 162. See also Institute for Humane Studies (IHS)

Harvard University, 5, 8

Hazlitt, Henry, 153, 162

Hayek, F. A., 4, 155, 162, 168

business cycle, 5–6, 23, 101, 118, 122–24, 126, 153, 169

capital theory, 3, 24, 63, 80–81, 84–85, 87, 122

Chicago School, 24, 140

competition, 95, 97, 153

economic calculation, 91

interest theory, 3, 123

Mises, 64, 123

political economy, 72

Heiple III, Rae C., 154

Henry Regnery Company, 23

Hicks, John R., 8, 29, 46, 50–51, 106

Hill, Lewis E., 161

Hoff, Trygve J. B., 51, 91

Hotelling, Harold, 9

human action, 1, 38, 40, 46, 53, 76, 93, 143, 147. See also action axiom; means-ends relationship; praxeolog

Hutchison, Terence, 41–42

Hutt, William H., 94

income, 17–19, 44, 56, 86, 102, 110, 114, 124, 148

aggregate, 17–18, 117

capitalist-entrepreneurial, 87, 89–91

compulsory, 108

distribution, 110

factor, 63, 65, 79, 85, 89, 99, 114, 128

interest, 89

land and labor, 113

marginal, 69

monetary, 15, 83, 86, 94

monopoly privilege, 112

net, 68–69, 89, 94

psychic, 15

real, 32, 148

social, 83

indifference curves. See under utility theory

inflation, credit expansion, 109. See also business cycle theory; deflation; monetary policy

business cycle, 121, 125–27, 149

exogenous, 117–18, 125

Friedman, 148–49

Hayek, 153

Keynesians, 119

praxeological category, 125

Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), 159–60, 162. See also Harper

Institutionalist School, institutionalism, 5, 11–14, 19–21, 28, 38, 40, 118–19, 164. See also Burns; Dorfman; Mitchell

Baconian, 11

business cycle, 118–19

favors empirical analysis, 11–13, 19–21

positivism, 14

Rothbard’s dissertation, 10, 19–22

interest theory. See also capital theory

Böhm-Bawerk, 80–82

classical, 88

Fetter-Mises, 3, 63, 80, 85, 87, 121, 123

Friedman, 148–49

Fisher, 82–83

Hayek, 81

monetary policy, 120, 149

neoclassical, 82–83, 123

Rothbard, 56, 93

capitalist-entrepreneur, 68–69, 77–79, 89, 91, 112–13, 144

structure of production, 63, 85–87, 98–99, 124, 128, 168

time preference, 63, 68–69, 77, 80–83, 95, 123, 168

interventionism theory, theory of government policy, 2, 5, 31, 53, 56, 91, 100, 102

British utilitarians vs. French optimist school, 104–105

consequences, 108, 110. See also welfare economics

general-equilibrium approach, 101

government, 102, 104

integrates business cycle theory, 101, 124

Mises and Rothbard, 5, 101, 103, 109–10, 112, 115, 122–24, 129–30, 168

neoclassical, 109

typology, 102, 109, 156

autistic intervention, 109–110

binary intervention, 109–110, 112–17. See also business cycle theory; government expenditures; inflation; taxation

triangular intervention, 110–12. See also grant of monopoly privilege; price controls

Jevons, William Stanley, 15–16, 37, 46, 56

Kaldor, Nicholas, 106

Kauder, Emil, 47–48

Kessel, Reuben A., 142, 148, 153

Keynes, John Maynard, 16, 23, 153, 155. See also Keynesian economics

Hayek, 23, 122, 140

Marshall, 16–18

Keynesian economics, 7, 9. See also Keynes

aggregative, 17–19, 21, 115

liquidity preference, 149

Marshallian foundations, 10, 15, 16–19, 164

neoclassical synthesis, 10, 115, 117, 119, 155

policy, 119–20, 128–29, 153

quantitative, 147

revolution, 8, 22, 122–23, 126

Kirzner, Israel M., 3, 6, 24, 49, 136–37, 155

production theory, 133, 142–46

Knight, Frank H., 72, 119, 139–41

capital theory, 84–85

method, 139–41

Kuznets, Simon, 117

Lachmann, Ludwig M., 3, 6

Rothbard, 42, 51, 88, 137, 142, 151–52, 157

Leontief, Wassily, 44

libertarianism, 17, 22–23, 25, 31, 71–73, 103–104, 109, 130, 133, 135, 158–61. See also Austrian-libertarian tradition

conservatives and libertarians, 17, 22, 25, 135–36, 155–56, 160–161, 163

Locke, John, 40

London School of Economics, 23, 122

Luhnow, Harold W., 22–23, 131, 134, 159–60. See also William Volker Fund

Machlup, Fritz, 122, 161

positivism, 41–42

theory of the firm, 69–70

marginalist revolution, 15–16, 105

market equilibrium theory. See also supply and demand

Austrian general equilibrium theory, 5, 63, 75–76, 80, 85, 87, 91, 93, 98, 110–11, 113–14, 148, 164, 168

Currency School, 120

credit contraction, 126–128

equilibrating, equilibration, 5, 27, 32–33, 52, 54–55, 58, 60, 66, 76–77, 86

evenly rotating economy (ERE), 75, 82, 85, 88, 164

final state of rest, 75

Hayek, 153

market quickly clears, 55–56

monetary changes, 33–36, 60–61

mathematical models, 8, 16, 23, 43–45, 47, 76, 80, 90, 147, 152, 164. See also econometrics; neoclassical synthesis; positivism

Marshallian economics, 5, 7, 9, 94, 164. See also competition and monopoly theory; Marshallian economics

firm, theory of, 10, 15–16, 63, 69–71, 75–76, 78–79, 97, 143

partial-equilibrium, 5, 8, 17, 18–19, 63, 96, 139

price theory, 10, 18, 21, 139

production theory, 6, 64–67, 77, 100, 133, 143

taxation, 112–14

welfare economics, 105

Marshall, Alfred, 15–16, 29, 76, 164. See also competition and monopoly theory; Marshall

Böhm-Bawerk, 23, 74–75

competition, 96

Keynes, 16–18

long run, 76, 166

Mises, 166

rent theory, 88

utility theory, 46

Marx, Karl, 153

McCulloch, J. R., 31

McKinley, Gordon W., 154

means-ends relationship, 27, 46–47, 49, 52, 54, 142. See also human action; utility theory

Menger, Carl, 4, 15, 53, 56, 67, 155

Meyer, Frank S., 155–56, 162

Mill, John Stuart, 13, 41

Mints, Lloyd, 119

Mises-Hayek theory of the business cycle. See under business cycle theory

Mises, Ludwig von. See also Austrian economics

Böhm-Bawerk, 24, 52, 56, 74, 80

business cycle theory, 101, 118, 121–26, 148, 169

capital theory, 80, 84, 87

Columbia faculty, 25, 134

economic calculation, 25, 63, 88, 90–93, 99, 115

evenly rotating economy, 75

Festschrift, 50, 106

Friedman, 146–47

Human Action, 1–2, 5, 25, 27–30, 32–33, 38–39, 45, 51–52, 54, 62, 64, 71, 73, 81, 88, 93, 103, 124–26, 155, 160, 162–65, 167–68

interest theory, 3, 63, 77, 80–81, 85, 87, 121, 123, 126–28

interventionism, 5, 109–12, 129–30

monetary theory, 27, 30–38, 60, 106, 125–27

New York University (NYU), NYU seminar, 23–25, 29, 34–35, 37–40, 43–44, 49, 56–57, 71, 91, 96, 104, 142, 146, 160–61, 166–67

political economy, 3, 72, 103, 130, 167

praxeology, 1–2, 4, 23, 25, 28, 31–32, 39–41, 45, 62, 95, 142, 165

price theory, 27, 38, 45, 52, 64, 168

production theory, 2, 5, 62–64, 67, 70–71, 88, 94–95, 100, 168

Rothbard, 133, 155, 169

comments on Rothbard’s work, 1–2, 4, 6, 30, 34–35, 37, 40, 42, 49, 51, 93, 96, 125, 136–37, 160, 163–68

correspondence with Rothbard, 5, 25, 27–28, 37–38, 40, 42, 162

The Theory of Money and Credit, 31, 33, 37

Theory and History, 157

utility theory, 45–52, 54, 56–58, 168

Mises, Margit von, 166

Mitchell, Wesley Clair, 11, 20, 118. See also Institutionalist School. See also under business cycle theory

monetary policy, 37–38, 120, 126, 128–29, 149–50, 153. See also deflation; Federal Reserve System; inflation

monetary theory, 31–38. See also business cycle theory; deflation; inflation

Austrian, 27, 31–38, 57–62, 148, 154–55

Chicago School, 6, 133, 146–52

Fisherian, 10, 32–35, 133, 139

neoclassical, 9, 29

monopoly theory. See competition and monopoly theory

Mont Pelerin Society, 23

Myrdal, Gunner, 40, 43

Nagel, Ernest, 12–15, 40. See also positivism

National Book Foundation, 135

National Bureau of Economic Research, 11, 14, 44, 118. See also Mitchell

neoclassical economics, 2–5, 7, 12, 22, 28, 30, 62, 100. See also Marshallian economics; Walrasian economics

interest theory, 83,

intervention and policy, 109, 120

method, 12–14, 76

monetary and business cycle theory, 9, 29, 32

price theory, 15–16, 29, 60

production theory, 6, 16, 17–18, 29, 63–64, 68, 71, 79, 94, 98–99, 143, 152

socialist calculation, 90

utility theory, 46–47, 54, 105–06

welfare theory, 103, 105–06

neoclassical synthesis, 4, 8, 10, 11, 16, 21, 23–24, 27, 29, 46–47, 99, 104. See also Hicks; Keynesian economics; Marshallian economics; neoclassical economics; Samuelson; Stigler; Walrasian economics

New Individualist Review, 163, 165

New York University (NYU), 23–25, 29, 34, 40, 71, 78, 135, 142, 146, 160, 166

Nurkse, Ragnar, 9

Penrose, Edith, 70

Pigou, Arthur C., 105

positivism, positivist method, 5–7, 12–14, 21, 23, 28, 38, 40–42, 139–41, 147, 164. See also Chicago School; Friedman; Knight

Chicago School, 139–41, 147

institutionalism, 11–15, 21, 40

Machlup, 41–42

Mill, 13

praxeology, 1–2, 4–5, 52, 63, 99–100, 115, 117, 125, 129, 131, 142, 151, 162, 164–65, 169. See also Austrian School; Mises

method, 6, 14–15, 23, 27–32, 38–40, 42–43, 45–46, 48–49, 56, 62, 76, 93, 95, 97, 101, 123, 138–41, 161, 168. See also deductive method

value-free, 130

price controls, 109–110, 130

price theory. See also Böhm-Bawerkian economics; economic laws; market equilibrium theory; Marshallian economics; supply and demand

Austrian, 38, 45, 53, 56–58, 99, 168

Chicago School, 10, 22, 139, 143, 146

Marshall, 15, 21, 96

neoclassical synthesis, 29, 49, 96

Princeton Panel, 137

production theory. See also Böhm-Bawerkian economics; competition and monopoly; Marshallian economics

Austrian, 78, 152

Böhm-Bawerkian basis, 74, 80, 84

Hayek and Wicksell, 3, 63, 81, 122

limits on firm size, 99

Mises, 2, 5, 62–64

Rothbard,

critiques Kirzner, 141–44, 146

critiques Marshallian, 69–71, 78

original production theory, 2, 5, 62, 64–65, 67–68, 77

revised production theory, 5, 60, 63, 69, 71, 74–75, 77–78, 84, 98–100, 104, 109–14, 143, 164, 168

Marshallian (neoclassical), 15–16, 64–65, 69–71, 75–78, 97, 100, 142–43

neo-Marshallian, 133, 146

no structure of production, 8, 84

single firm, 5–6, 69, 75–80

profit and loss, 103, 107–108, 115–17

loss, 35–36, 57, 61, 77, 88, 90, 92–93, 102–103, 107–108, 113–17

profit, 13, 19, 36, 56–57, 77–78, 88–90, 92–93, 95, 102–103, 107–108, 112, 114–17, 121–22, 126–27, 137, 153

Read, Leonard, 22, 25, 73

Reisman, George, 91

revenue and cost, 57, 64, 90. See also under economic laws

cost, 15–16, 36, 54, 56, 64–65, 74, 79–80, 88, 91–92, 96–98, 111–13, 116, 127

marginal cost, 69, 127, 144, 152

marginal revenue, marginal income, 69, 127, 144, 152

opportunity cost, 79, 92, 149

revenue, 36, 66, 68, 79, 85, 95, 102, 111, 113–14, 116

total cost, total revenue, 78

Ricardo, David, 15, 31, 48

Robbins, Lionel, 11, 15, 23, 28, 47, 71, 105, 122, 139–40, 142

Robinson, Claude, 137

Robinson, Joan, 16, 64. See also under competition and monopoly theory

Roepke, Wilhelm, 162

Rolph, Earl, 85

Rothbard, David, 7

Rothbard, Murray N., See also Rothbard, works of

Columbia University, 2, 5, 7–12, 17, 21, 25, 28–29, 62, 64, 70, 90, 100, 118, 159–60, 164

dissertation, 10, 19–22, 25, 31, 134, 159

Mises,

corresponds with Mises, 5, 25, 27–28, 37–38, 40, 42, 162

heir, 4, 133, 155, 169

receives comments from Mises, 1–2, 4, 6, 30, 34–35, 37, 40, 42, 49, 51, 93, 96, 125, 136–37, 160, 163–68

textbook project, 2, 5, 27–32, 38, 45–46, 51–62, 64–73, 94, 99, 117, 140, 160

treatise, 2–3, 5–6, 93, 129, 138, 140

Austrian-libertarian, 71, 104, 109

capital theory, 81, 98–99, 143–44

competition and monopoly, 94, 96, 99, 143–44

completes and revises, 129–31, 133, 146, 151–53, 155–57

economic calculation, 90–91, 99

decides to write, 69–74, 91, 94

interventionism, 102, 104

publishes, 157–60

reception, 160–69

Volker Fund, 2, 5–7, 25, 27, 30–31, 38, 41, 70–73, 99, 131, 133–42, 147, 151, 155–56, 158–61

Rothbard, works of

America’s Great Depression, 118n53, 123–25, 128–29, 136–37, 148, 154–55, 159, 167

“The Case for a 100 Per Cent Gold Dollar,” 150–51

“In Defense of ‘Extreme Apriorism’,” 41–42

Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles, 2, 129–30, 133, 139, 151, 155, 157–69

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies, 19–22, 134, 159

Power and Market: Government and the Economy, 2, 155–57

“Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics,” 50–52, 106–107

What Has Government Done to Our Money? 37, 125–26, 159

Rougier, Louis, 1, 165

Rushdoony, R. J., 160

Samuelson, Paul, 8, 47–48, 147

Schwartz, Anna, 146

Schuller, George, 39

Schultz, Henry, 43

Schumpeter, Joseph, 28–29, 97, 155

Sennholz, Hans, 167

Simons, Henry C., 119

Smith, Adam, 15, 48

Stigler, George J., 6, 140–41. See also Chicago School; Friedman; Marshallian economics

Columbia, 8–10, 140–41

price theory, 8, 10, 22, 29, 41, 70, 139, 144

production theory, 64, 67, 70, 84, 88, 143

structure of production. See Böhm-Bawerkian economics; capital theory. See also under interest theory

supply and demand, 60, 62. See also consumer theory; market equilibrium theory; production theory

demand curves, 5, 43–44, 53–54, 56, 58–59, 66–67, 75, 95, 98, 111, 141, 144, 146, 168

supply curves, 54, 58, 65, 112, 114

Taussig, Frank, 155

taxation, 17, 43, 105, 109–110, 112, 114, 168

calculational chaos, 115–17

imputation, 101, 111–12

policy, 43, 106

progressive income, 105

sales, 113–14

Thomas Jefferson Center at the University of Virginia, 150

time preference, 61, 63, 68–69, 77–78, 80–83, 85–87, 98, 123–24, 154. See also under consumer theory; interest theory

Tintner, Gerhard, 43–44

University of Chicago, 5, 8, 24, 50, 136, 138, 155, 163. See also Chicago School

Committee on Social Thought, 24

University of Southern California, 41

University of Vienna, 23

University of Virginia, 150

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, 152

utilitarianism, 72, 105, 130

British, 105

utility theory

Austrian utility theory, 15–16, 31

demonstrated preference, 51, 106–07

ordinal marginal utility, 5, 27, 45–54, 56–58, 60–62, 69, 105–09, 111, 131, 143, 152, 168

labor, 39

money, 33, 35, 56–62, 69, 82, 110, 146

neoclassical, 15–16, 104

cardinal utility, 27, 46–47, 49–50, 105–07

indifference curves, 27, 46–47, 51–52

Van Nostrand Company, 155–57, 161

Van Sickle, John V., 42

Veblen, Thorstein, 11, 20. See also Institutionalist School; Mitchell

Viner, Jacob, 150

Volker Fund. See William Volker Fund

Walras, Léon, 15, 44, 57. See also Walrasian economics

Walrasian economics, 28, 67, 79. See also Samuelson; Walras

general equilibrium, 8, 10, 29, 44–45, 75–76, 80, 90, 100

Warburton, Clark, 150

Weiler, E. T., 67

welfare economics, 32–33, 50, 104–105. See also interventionism theory

Mises, 35–36, 109–10

New, 106, 108

Old, 105

perfect competition, 97–98

Rothbard, 35–36, 50, 101, 104, 106–109, 116, 152, 156, 161, 168

Wicksell, Knut, 63, 81, 121

Wicksteed, Philip H., 53–54, 59–60, 71. See also Wicksteedian economics

Wicksteedian economics, Austrian-Wicksteedian theory of price, 54, 60, 62. See also Wicksteed

Wieser, Friedrich von, 67

William Volker Fund, 4

Austrian School, 24–25, 27, 30–31, 131, 133, 135–38, 145, 155, 158–60

Chicago School, 22, 41, 150

collapse, 6, 160–61

Rothbard, 2, 5–7, 25, 27, 30–31, 38, 41, 70–73, 99, 131, 133–42, 147, 151, 155–56, 158–61

Series in the Humane Studies, 155

Willis, H. Parker, 9

Winch, D. N., 161

Yale University, 25, 157

Yeager, Leland B., 150–51