Volume 6, Number 2 of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies has just been published. This Spring 2005 issue is the second of two symposia celebrating the Ayn Rand Centenary. It is entitled “Ayn Rand Among the Austrians,” and it features the articles and contributors listed below. This landmark anthology surveys Rand’s relationship to key thinkers in the Austrian school of economics, including Ludwig von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, and F. A. Hayek. (Some of our Mises Economics Blog colleagues are among the contributors to the issue.)
Spring 2005 Table of Contents
Centenary Symposium, Part II
Introduction: Ayn Rand Among the Austrians – Chris Matthew Sciabarra and Larry J. Sechrest [a PDF version of this article is available online here.]
Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises – George Reisman
Ayn Rand and Austrian Economics: Two Peas in a Pod – Walter Block
Alan Greenspan: Rand, Republicans, and Austrian Critics – Larry J. Sechrest
Praxeology: Who Needs It – Roderick T. Long
Subjectivism, Intrinsicism, and Apriorism: Rand Among the Austrians? – Richard C. B. Johnsson
Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond – Edward W. Younkins
Two Worlds at Once: Rand, Hayek, and the Ethics of the Micro- and Macro-cosmos – Steven Horwitz
Our Unethical Constitution – Candice E. Jackson
Teaching Economics Through Ayn Rand: How the Economy is Like a Novel and How the Novel Can Teach Us About Economics – Peter J. Boettke
Reply to William Thomas: An Economist Responds – Leland B. Yeager
Rejoinder to Leland B. Yeager: Clarity and the Standard of Ethics – William Thomas
For article abstracts, click here.
For contributor biographies, click here.
For information on subscriptions, click here.
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very interesting post. thanks.
Just a short comment regarding the Salsman analysis that is contained in the Sciabarra and Sechrest “Introduction”. Austrian Business Cycle Theory as originated by Mises is, in an important respect, an extension of his studies into economic calculation. Businessmen are not necessarily “fooled” by the artificially lowered rate of interest, but their ability to calculate and appraise is hampered. One of the economy’s most important prices, possibly the most important price from a production standpoint, has been distorted, and its usefulness in guiding calculation and appraisement, and hence rational resource allocation, has been compromised. Yes, businessmen can attempt to adjust their plans to account for the distortions, but they are faced with an additional level of uncertainty, with this additional uncertainty hampering the efficient allocation of resources.
As I pointed out in my blog post on this subject “Randians go from Mises to Supply-side economics”, it is interesting to see how Richard Salsman and some other ARI-affiliated randians
often criticize ex-Randian Alan Greenspan from the exact opposite perspective as misesians-namely that he is insufficently inflationary rather than being too inflationary .
I just wish this connection had been made more clear twenty years ago, so I could have gone right to the Austrian source rather than experience the torture of Rand’s poor writing talent.
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