1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This chapter presents Israel M. Kirzner’s reconstruction of Hayek’s contribution to price theory as a theory of knowledge and market process...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Knowing about Knowledge” (1979) Kirzner’s essay is a compact Austrian intervention into the economics of information...
Kirzner’s essay reconstructs Mises’s theory of capital and interest from scattered writings and seminar influence rather than from a single systematic treatise...
This is a single-authored theoretical essay in political economy and property-rights theory. Kirzner’s central concern is the familiar moral claim that people are entitled to what they have produced...
Israel M. Kirzner, “The Entrepreneurial Role in Menger’s System” — Summary Kirzner’s essay asks how far Carl Menger’s economics contains the entrepreneurial theory later associated with the Austrian tradition...
Israel M. Kirzner, Discovery and the Capitalist Process — Summary Kirzner’s collection advances a distinctively Austrian thesis: capitalism is not fundamentally a static mechanism for allocating known resources, but an o...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Another Look at the Subjectivism of Costs” This single-authored 1986 scholarly essay/chapter in Austrian economic theory revisits opportunity cost after Wieser and Buchanan...
Israel M. Kirzner, Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice (1989) This file is a full-length single-author monograph in seven chapters...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Menger, Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School of Economics” — Summary This file is a single-authored scholarly chapter in the history of economic thought, with notes and references appended fro...
This file is a single-author scholarly chapter/commentary in history of economic thought. Occasioned by the facsimile republication of Menger’s Grundsätze, it reassesses Menger from the standpoint of the mature Austrian...
Summary: Israel M. Kirzner, “Discovery, Private Property and the Theory of Justice in Capitalist Society” This file is a scholarly chapter in economic theory and political philosophy, with notes and references, focused o...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Friedrich A. von Hayek 1899–1992” — Summary This file is a short, single-author obituary evaluation. Kirzner deliberately sets aside Hayek’s life story and the familiar memorial emphasis on his classi...