The Economic Point of View.

divmeta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId" /meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator" /meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator" /link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Chprobala%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /span style="font-family: Arial;"emstrongThe Economic Point of View /strong/emis the inaugural volume in Liberty Fund's new emCollected Works of Israel M. Kirzner/em series. This work established Kirzner as a careful and meticulous scholar of economics. No other living economist is so closely associated with the st1:placename w:st="on"Austrian/st1:placename st1:placetype w:st="on"School/st1:placetype of economics as Israel M. Kirzner, professor emeritus of economics at st1:place w:st="on"st1:placename w:st="on"New York/st1:placename st1:placetype w:st="on"University/st1:placetype/st1:place. He has been a leader of the generation of st1:place w:st="on"st1:placename w:st="on"Austrian/st1:placename st1:placetype w:st="on"School/st1:placetype/st1:place economists following Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek.o:p //spanspan style="font-family: Arial;"o:pbr /br /In emstrongThe Economic Point of View/strong/em, Kirzner explores the basic ideas around which the entire body of economic thought has revolved for some two centuries. He explains how the "economic point of view" emerged in the development of economic science since the eighteenth century and through it, the concepts of purpose, subjectivism, and rationality. Kirzner's incomparable ability to navigate through the core ideas of economics helps the reader become progressively familiar with the history of the discipline and its definition.o:p //o:p/spanspan style="font-family: Arial;"o:pbr //o:pbr /Within the seven chapters, Kirzner discusses such subjects as the science of wealth and welfare; the nature of economic science and the significance of macroeconomics; and the sciences as human action, including a section on praxeology and its relationship to the economic point of view. As Mises writes in his foreword to the volume, "Dr. Kirzner's book . . . is a very valuable contribution to the history of ideas, describing the march of economics from a science of wealth to a science of human action. . . . span style=""�/spanEvery economist-and for that matter everybody interested in problems of general epistemology-will read with great profit Doctor Kirzner's analyses."o:p //spanspan style="font-family: Arial;"strongo:pbr /br //o:pPeter J. Boettke/strong is the BBT Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the st1:placename w:st="on"Mercatus/st1:placename st1:placetype w:st="on"Center/st1:placetype and a University Professor of economics at st1:place w:st="on"st1:placename w:st="on"George/st1:placename st1:placename w:st="on"Mason/st1:placename st1:placename w:st="on"University/st1:placename/st1:place. His publications include emWhy Perestroika Failed: The Economics and Politics of Socialist Transformation and Calculation and Coordination/em. Since 1998 he has been the editor of theem Review of Austrian Economics/em.o:p //spanspan style="font-family: Arial;"o:pstrongbr /br /Fr�d�ric Sautet /strongis a Senior Research Fellow at the st1:placename w:st="on"Mercatus/st1:placename st1:placetype w:st="on"Center/st1:placetype and a member of the graduate faculty at st1:place w:st="on"st1:placename w:st="on"George/st1:placename st1:placename w:st="on"Mason/st1:placename st1:placename w:st="on"University/st1:placename/st1:place. He is the author ofuem /emem style=""span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"An/div