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The domain of Austrian economics

What is so Austrian about Austrian Economics?

ISBN: 978-0-85724-261-7, eISBN: 978-0-85724-262-4

Publication date: 10 August 2010

Abstract

Modern mainstream economics is a plurocracy in which there is no orthodoxy of ideas, only an orthodoxy of method. Given the training it provides its students, mainstream economics' natural domain is science. With the mainstream's acceptance of complexity views of the economy, Austrian economist's views can now get a hearing within the mainstream. Thus, within the science of economics, there is no need for a separate Austrian economics. However, there is a need for Austrian economics in political economy, the branch of economics that takes the insights of science and relates them to policy. The paper urges Austrian economics to embrace political economy as its domain and to position its work within political economy.

Citation

Colander, D. (2010), "The domain of Austrian economics", Koppl, R., Horwitz, S. and Desrochers, P. (Ed.) What is so Austrian about Austrian Economics? (Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-2134(2010)0000014005

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