Spontaneous Order, Liberty, and Austrian Economics

Wagner, Richard E.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2000465

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Spontaneous Order, Liberty, and Austrian Economics

Richard E. Wagner

George Mason University - Department of Economics

February 7, 2012

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 12-06

Abstract:
This essay is a response to five essays that collectively constituted a symposium sponsored by Studies in Emergent Order on my 2010 book, Mind, Society, and Human Action: Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy. This essay offers individual reactions to each of the five contributors (Adam Martin, Peter Boettke, Roger Koppl, Paul Lewis, and Bruce Benson), and closes with some general reflections on spontaneous order theorizing in relation to economics and liberty.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 26

Keywords: emergence, spontaneous order, mainline vs. mainstream economics, emergent dynamics vs. comparative statics, entangled political economy

JEL Classification: B13, B40, D01, D50

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Date posted: February 7, 2012

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Wagner, Richard E., Spontaneous Order, Liberty, and Austrian Economics (February 7, 2012). GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 12-06. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2000465 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2000465

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