Table of Contents

Contents:

PART I: INTRODUCTORY
1. Humane Economics: An Introduction to the Work of Don Lavoie
Jack High

PART II: SOCIALIST CALCULATION
2. Calculation, Competition and Entrepreneurship
Israel M. Kirzner

3. Don Lavoie’s Contributions to Comparative Economics
Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko

4. A Typology of Interventionist Dynamics
Robert L. Bradley Jr.

PART III: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
5. Institutions as Abstraction Boundaries
Bill Tulloh and Mark S. Miller

6. ‘New’ Collaborative Learning Environments: The Convergence of Hermeneutics and Hypertext
Virgil Henry Storr

PART IV: PHILOSOPHY
7. Hermeneutics and Liberty: Remembrance of Don Lavoie
G.B. Madison

8. Hermeneutics in Economics: On the Status of ‘As-If’ Functions
Wayne J. Froman

9. Humility and Truth in Economics
Deirdre McCloskey

PART V: CULTURAL STUDIES
10. The Development of Cultural Economy: Foundational Questions and Future Direction
Emily Chamlee-Wright

11. Innovation of Cardio-Imaging Technology at Hewlett-Packard and HP/Philips
Don E. Kash

PART VI: APPENDIX
12. Subjective Orientation and Objective Wealth: Entrepreneurship and the Convergence of Groupware and Hypertext Capabilities
Don Lavoie

Bibliography of Don Lavoie’s Publications

Index

About the Author

Edited by Jack High, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, George Mason University, US

Reviews

'This book highlights Don Lavoie's multidisciplinary approach to the study of economics. In his view, economics is closer to the humanities than to the hard sciences, notwithstanding the claim often made in the literature that economics is indeed "a hard science". True to Lavoie's vision, the book contains theoretical articles and case studies which link economics to several fields of study. It is a delight to see emphasis placed on the "hows and whys" underlying market processes.'
*Alan A. Rabin, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, US*

'The authors do well-merited honor to Don Lavoie with carefully written contributions that not only are excellent for a memorial volume but could constitute a selection of outstanding journal articles. They tie together Lavoie's many superficially different interests in, among others, comparative economic systems, market processes, computer programming, and epistemology. In particular, they emphasize how markets and prices enhance and coordinate inevitably dispersed knowledge. So doing, they further develop the contributions of Ludwig von Mises and especially of F.A. Hayek to the debate over socialist calculation.'
*Leland Yeager, Auburn University and University of Virginia, US*