1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Kirzner - Entrepreneurial Discovery (1997) Israel Kirzner’s article reframes Austrian microeconomics around the market as a process of coordination rather than a condition of equilibrium...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Competition and the Market Process: Some Doctrinal Milestones” This file is a single-author scholarly chapter in an edited volume...
Coordination as a Criterion for Economic “Goodness” — Summary Kirzner’s essay reconstructs welfare judgment for Austrian, subjectivist economics...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Creativity and/or Alertness” — Summary Kirzner’s chapter revisits a long-standing contrast within entrepreneurship theory: Schumpeter’s entrepreneur as creative destroyer and Kirzner’s entrepreneur as...
This file is a single-author scholarly chapter/article in Hayek studies and Austrian economics. Kirzner asks whether Hayek’s wide-ranging work is governed by one “big thing”: plan-coordination under dispersed knowledge...
Israel M. Kirzner, How Markets Work (1997) Kirzner’s thesis is that market coordination cannot be explained by neoclassical equilibrium theory...
This source is best read as a multi-contributor volume on Mises’s understanding of capitalism rather than as a single Kirzner essay...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Rationality, Entrepreneurship, and Economic ‘Imperialism’” — Summary Kirzner’s chapter is a methodological argument about the scope of economics rather than a contribution to applied price theory...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Reflections on the Misesian Legacy in Economics” — Summary This file is a single-authored chapter/essay, first published as a memorial paper for Murray N. Rothbard...
Israel M. Kirzner, “The Driving Force of the Market” (1997) — Summary Kirzner’s chapter contrasts the static idea of competition in contemporary price theory with the Austrian conception of competition as a dynamic marke...
Israel M. Kirzner, “The Ethics of Competition” (1994) Kirzner’s chapter revisits Frank Knight’s classic ethical critique of capitalism in order to challenge its economic foundation...
Israel M. Kirzner, “The Limits of the Market: The Real and the Imagined” — Summary This file is a single-authored theoretical chapter in Austrian economics, organized into four sections with notes and references...