Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice - Couverture rigide

Boettke, Peter J; Sautet, Frederic

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0865978603 ISBN 13 : 9780865978607

Editeur : Liberty Fund Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice makes Kirzners case for the idea that entrepreneurial profit is both essential for an economy and profoundly just. Asserting that the problem with standard criticism of capitalist income distribution is a failure to see capitalism as a discovery procedure, Kirzner argues that production and subsequent profit are neither automatic nor guaranteed. This important contribution to the larger debate of the capitalist system clarifies core economic issues, so that the positive science of economics can enlighten our understanding of justice in capitalist distribution. Successful production always results from the discovery of an opportunity to obtain new gains from trade, i.e., the discovery of entrepreneurial profit. Kirzner shows that profit is the just and fair possession of its discoverer. This is what he calls the ""finders-keepers"" rule: ""The finders-keepers rule asserts that an unowned object becomes the justly owned property of the first person who, discovering its availability and its potential value, takes possession of it."" Richard Ebeling reviewed the work in 1989, saying, ""the heart of Professor Kirzner's argument is that every discovery of a new opportunity is the appropriation of that which had not existed before a human mind had seen the potential in that object."" Kirzner's monograph is complemented here by three important articles on the subject of economic justice, a critique of Kirzner's theory, and a reply from Kirzner to that critique. Kirzner's finders-keepers rule of entrepreneurial profit and market distribution stands as one of the foremost defenses of the distribution of income and profit in the free-enterprise system.

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À propos des auteurs

Peter J. Boettke is University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center. His publications include Living Economics, The Handbook of Contemporary Austrian Economics, and The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics. He has been the editor of The Review of Austrian Economics since 1998.

Frédéric Sautet is Associate Professor at The Catholic University of America, Tim Busch School of Business and Economics. He is a specialist in Austrian market process theory and teaches entrepreneurship studies. He is the author of An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and has published widely on entrepreneurship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liberty Fund Inc
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0865978603
• ISBN 13: 9780865978607
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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