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The Driving Force of the Collective: Post-Austrian Theory in Response to Israel Kirzner

I The Character of Post-Austrian Economics Collaborative Discovery and the Conversive Democratic Process: A Post-Austrian Approach Equilibrating Tendencies Sheer Ignorance and the Discovery of Knowledge (a) The Entrepreneurial Role (b) The Role of Discovery (c) Rivalrous Competition (a) Contestable Government (b) Economic and Social Justice (c) Welfare Economics (d) The Efficiency of Public Provision Notes References The Individualist Subjectivism of Austrian Economics The Individualism of the Austrian School The Incompleteness of Mainstream Austrian Subjectivism The Austrian Individualist Heritage: The Divergent Paths (a) Mainstream Austrian Economics (b) Radical Subjectivism (c) The Post-Austrian School The Post-modern Post-Austrian Subjectivism Scylla and Charybdis Avoided Post-Austrian Critiques and Austrian Defenses Subjectivism, the Past and the Future Conclusion Notes References Subjectivism, Freedom, and Social-Interest Kirzner and the Centrality of His Entrepreneurial Individual The Difficulties Raised by Will: Subjectivity, Determinism, and Causation Mainstream Austrian Economics The Nature of Human Action Open-endedness and the Overcoming of the Uncertainty of the Common Will Self-interest, Rationality, and Purposefulness: A Brief Digression Notes References II The Democratic Process The Limits of Democracy: The Real and the Imagined The Real and the Imagined Coordination, Public and Private Human Nature and Social Norms Institutional Prerequisites, Knowledge, Kirzner, and Hayek Hayek, Coordination, and the Evolution of Democracy Conclusion Notes References The Ethics of Competition and Cooperation The Meaning of Competition The Open-Endedness of the Market Economy The Function of the Market and the Ethics of Distribution Market Ignorance and Kirznerian Ethics The Real World and Perfectly Unethical Competition Ethics of Markets: Choice versus Consent Market Neutrality and Ethical Neutrality Ethics of the Workplace Notes References Some Ethical Insights on the Nature of Profits Ethics and Economics Intertwined Some Lessons Learned from the Leading Entrepreneurs The Discovery Theory of Advertising Profit-Seeking and the Ethics of Discovery: An Overview The Meaning of Discovery The Discovery Character of Information Technology Further Reflections on the Nature of Profit and Non-Profits Toward a Broader Theory of Distributive Justice Notes Coordination and Collaboration: Agreement as a Criterion for Democratic Goodness Austrians and Ostrom: The Individual and the Social Group Standard Austrian Attempts to Identify the Criterion of Goodness Social Provisioning Defined Democracy Defined and Properly Understood Conversation not Competition The Dynamic Coordination Process Coordination and Optimal Goodness Conclusion Notes III Studies in the Mises-Hayek Legacy Reflections of the Misesian Legacy of Hyper-individualism Misesian Microfoundations and Hayekian Spontaneous Order From Mises to Hayek and Beyond Conclusion Notes References Knowledge and the Austrian Understanding of the Democratic System Consumer Sovereignty, Its Limitations and Problems The Significance of Democracy Kirzner and the Knowledge Problem Kirzner, Culture, Democracy, and Knowledge Notes References Culture, Hayek, and the Idea of Plan-Coordination The Post-Austrian Idea of the Social Order and the Importance of Culture The Tetrad on Endogenous Emergence Polanyi points out something similar regarding the free market economists of his day:Culture and Other Related Issues Frameworks and Formal Rules for Corporations and Other Collectives Hayek and the Spontaneous Orders Beyond Markets Notes References IV Studies in the Theory of Conversation Conversation and the Democratic Process: Some Doctrinal Touchstones Bureaucracy and the Public Sector Further Thoughts on Bureaucracy and the Public Sector Austrians and the Potential Benefits of Public Ownership Culture The Scene in America: Media Concentration and Bias Reflections on Hayek, Gadamer, Habermas According to Sciabarra The Late Twentieth Century: Management Theory, CAS, and Conversation A Retrospective Reflection Notes References The Driving Force of the Collective: The Idea of “Conversation” in Contemporary Economic Theory and in the Post-Austrian Theory of the Democratic Process The Model of the Dynamic Public Sector Conversation as a Discovery Procedure Conversation and State The Post-Austrian Theory of Conversation and State The Post-Austrian Theory of Deliberation Notes References Misallocation and/or Misunderstood: A Reconsideration of the Misesian Calculation Problem Blind Spots and Market Correction The Seed Theory Problem with Central Planning Seed Theory in Market Economies False Prices and Market Corrections Centrally Set Pricing Creates a Calculation Problem Planning and Coercion: A Short Diversion Ota Sik, Lessons from Socialism and New Market Socialism What About Indicative Planning?Seed Theory and Market Correction Notes References Society, the Collective, and Economic “Imperialism”Complex Adaptive Systems Beyond Markets Social Provisioning, Culture, and Democratic Conversation The Social Individual and the Arts The Democratic Process Capitalist Propaganda and the Public Conversation Conclusion Notes References

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