Law and Economics - Austrians
What Austrians Can Teach "Law and Economics" Scholars 1 COMMENT 01/21/2019 Alexandre Padilla [From The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, no. 2 (Summer 2018). For the full issue, click here .] Few scholars disagree that Austrian economists and their fellow travelers have made significant contributions to law and economics. Anyone familiar with the works of Carl Menger, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Israel Kirzner recognizes their undeniable additions to law and economics, particularly in analyzing institutions, monopoly and antitrust laws, and regulations and their (unintended) consequences. The contributions in the Research Handbook on Austrian Law and Economics build on and expand the work of these great Austrian economists by applying what editors Todd Zywicki and Peter Boettke (2017, p. 21) call the “propositions that are the defining substantive position of the contemporary Austrian school of econo...