{"title":"Information, classification and contestability: a cultural economics approach to Uber’s entry into the taxi industry","authors":"A. Evans","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3910393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3910393","url":null,"abstract":"Because of their novelty, the rise of large platform companies, such as Uber, pose a genuine challenge to our attempts to classify and understand economic activities. This article utilises a broad view of cultural economics and subjectivist economic analysis to provide some clarity. We see how economic analysis is capable of dealing with companies that provide information based services, and why such industries are increasingly common. Goods, product categories and consumption rituals are all considered as social constructs, and subject to cultural interpretation. The main implication of this approach is how the prevention of exclusion and the elimination of entry barriers are both related and relevant to the well-functioning of market orders.","PeriodicalId":45264,"journal":{"name":"Review of Austrian Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46024819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michelle Schwarze, recognizing resentment: Sympathy, injustice, and liberal political thought","authors":"Kristen R. Collins","doi":"10.1007/s11138-021-00554-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-021-00554-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45264,"journal":{"name":"Review of Austrian Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11138-021-00554-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42078919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assumed military solutions to central economic planning problems: evidence from soviet military journals","authors":"G. Wood","doi":"10.1007/s11138-021-00551-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-021-00551-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45264,"journal":{"name":"Review of Austrian Economics","volume":"36 1","pages":"383 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11138-021-00551-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52770331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching economics, defending the free market and justifying government intervention: The ABCs of Buchanan’s political economy","authors":"A. Marciano","doi":"10.1007/s11138-021-00550-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-021-00550-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45264,"journal":{"name":"Review of Austrian Economics","volume":"36 1","pages":"441 - 460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11138-021-00550-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47663002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart","authors":"R. Behr","doi":"10.1007/s11138-021-00553-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-021-00553-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45264,"journal":{"name":"Review of Austrian Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11138-021-00553-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47104504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew McCaffrey, N. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Joseph T. Salerno
{"title":"Breaking out of the Kirznerian box: A reply to Sautet","authors":"Matthew McCaffrey, N. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Joseph T. Salerno","doi":"10.1007/s11138-021-00552-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-021-00552-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45264,"journal":{"name":"Review of Austrian Economics","volume":"36 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11138-021-00552-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47783398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The economic logic behind the ultimate resource","authors":"Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3857155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3857155","url":null,"abstract":"Using economic reasoning, Julian Simon offered crucial insights into a range of pressing issues including the environment, immigration, and economic development. The main lesson from Simon’s scholarship is that the ultimate resource does not reside in the ground (natural resources), or even in the accumulated wisdom and knowledge in books and scientific journals (human capital), but in the imagination of people. Through their purposeful actions, people turn their thoughts and aspiration into a new reality that enables immense improvements in the human condition. In making this argument, Simon articulated the core ideas of Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and Israel Kirzner regarding the discovery and use of knowledge in society, and the role of entrepreneurship as the prime mover of progress. This paper makes this intellectual connection clear.","PeriodicalId":45264,"journal":{"name":"Review of Austrian Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43596606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statogenic climate change? Julian Simon and Institutions","authors":"Vincent J. Geloso","doi":"10.1007/s11138-022-00581-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-022-00581-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45264,"journal":{"name":"Review of Austrian Economics","volume":"35 1","pages":"343 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45670742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}