Publisher's Synopsis
This text seeks to demonstrate that members of the Austrian School of Economics anticipated a number of themes that have only recently acquired prominence. Thus, the work of Mises and Hayek paved the way for modern neo-institutional and evolutionary economics. The book contains brief introductory and concluding essays and eight self-contained essays.;The author covers themes such as: the Hayek-Keynes debate; the Austrians as precursers of evolutionary and neo-institutional economics; and modern Austrian economics. The text does not presume a detailed knowledge of Austrian economics.