Austrian economics and the study of social coordination
Based on their new book, Austrian Economics: An Introduction, Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall will discuss the core ideas of the Austrian school of economics as an active approach to understanding markets, institutions, and social coordination.
The topics they will discuss include the market process, the role of prices as guides to dispersed knowledge, competition as discovery, and the limits of centralized planning and technocratic control. Coyne and Hall will discuss the contributions of thinkers such as Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, and Friedrich Hayek. Far from being a historical artifact, the Austrian tradition remains a fruitful vein of inquiry for scholars, informing many contemporary economic topics and policy issues.
About the speakers
Christopher Coyne is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.
Abigail R. Hall is a Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa and a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
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