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Pierre Desrochers

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Review of The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok, eds.

The Environment

07/30/2014Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Perhaps the best concise summary of this book is given by editor Alexander Tabarrok in his concluding chapter. As he points out, where most urbanists see market failures,
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Book Review: Energy: The Master Resource by Robert L. Bradley

The Environment

07/30/2014Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Almost nowhere, however, are lay readers presented with a more sober and realistic perspective according to which the institutional framework of market economies has always been conducive to greater resource
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On the Abuse of Patents as Economic Indicators

Legal System

07/30/2014Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Patents have a long history as a proxy for inventive activity. Although these data lost ground in the early 1960s to other measures of technical innovation, they have once again become fashionable in the last decade.
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A Geographical Perspective on Austrian Economics

The Environment

07/30/2014Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
This article is therefore intended as a complement to the Austrian tradition and will point out more specifically the importance of local conditions for the production of innovative goods and services.
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The Death and Life of a Reluctant Urban Icon. Review Essay of Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary by ALice Sparberg Alexiou

Media and Culture

07/30/2014The Journal of Libertarian Studies
In this article, Pierre Desrochers reviews Alice Sparberg Alexiou's Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary . Volume 21, Number 3 (2007)
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