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Title The Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy / edited by Paul Dragos Aligica, Paul Lewis, Virgil H. Storr
Published Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (200 pages)
Series Advances in Austrian Economics ; vol. 22
Advances in Austrian economics ; vol. 22.
Contents THE AUSTRIAN AND BLOOMINGTON SCHOOLS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Essays -- References -- ABC â#x80;#x93; AUSTRIA, BLOOMINGTON, CHICAGO: POLITICAL ECONOMY THE OSTROM WAY -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Economics â#x80;#x9C;More Geometricoâ#x80;#x9D;?17 -- 2.1. Non-Refutable Economic Theories? -- 2.2. Synthetic A Priori Truths in a â#x80;#x9C;Geometry of Rational Practiceâ#x80;#x9D;? -- 3. Internalist vs. Externalist Explanations of Human Behavior -- 3.1. Nonpredictive Social Theory -- 3.2. Types of Explanation
3.3. Classical Game Theory as a Paradigm of â#x80;#x9C;Austrianâ#x80;#x9D; Internalism3.4. The Extremes of Chicago Behaviorism -- 4. Theories of Ideal and Real Worlds -- 4.1. Case-Based Reverse Social Engineering -- 4.2. Governance and the Homo (o)Economicus Model -- 5. To Make the World a Better Place -- References -- THE OSTROMS AND HAYEK AS THEORISTS OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS: COMMONALITY AND COMPLEMENTARITY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Nature of Complex Systems -- 3. Complex Systems in the Work of F.A. Hayek -- 4. Complex Systems in the Work of the Ostroms
5. Hayekâ#x80;#x99;s Account of Group Selection: A Tension and an Ostromian Contruibution6. Elinor Ostrom on Emergence, Basic Units of Analysis and Methodological Individualism -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING: THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF APPLIED WORK IN POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory and History -- 3. The Problem of Understanding -- 4. The Bloomington Method of Understanding -- 5. Conclusion -- References
THE ORGANIZATIONAL EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: AN AUSTRIAN AND BLOOMINGTON APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH AND EXPANSION1. Introduction -- 2. Utilizing the Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy to Examine Organizational Evolution -- 3. Analyzing the Organizational Evolution of the American National Red Cross -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- COVENANT AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY INPOLYCENTRIC ORDERS -- Introduction -- Tocqueville, Vincent Ostrom, AND Daniel Elazar on Covenant -- What is Covenant? -- Covenant and Federalism
Althusius, Ames, and the Metaphysics of Citizenship in the Bloomington SchoolArtisanship as Covenanting Behavior in the Bloomington School -- Metaphysical Foundations and Moral Psychology -- Value, Valuation, and Values: Subjective or Transcendent? -- Covenant vs. Convention -- Hobbes vs. Aristotelians: Can Analysts be Heterogeneous in Metaphysics? -- Some Tentative Thoughts Regarding the Bloomington School and Materialism -- Climate Change: An Urgent Collective Problem for Public Choice -- Conclusion with Questions -- References
Summary The volume is a unique attempt to explore the relationship between two of the most interesting contemporary schools of thought evolving at the interface between social science and social philosophy: The Austrian tradition of F A Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and the Bloomington tradition of Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Economics -- Australia
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economics
Economics -- Sociological aspects
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Aligică, Paul Dragoș, editor.
Storr, Virgil H., editor
Lewis, Paul, editor
ISBN 1787148432
9781787148437
9781787432734
1787432734