Horwitz - Austrian Economics

Steven Horwitz

Peter Lewin

Peter C. Mentzel

Rosolino A. Candela

Lynne Kiesling

Witold Kwasnicki

Nick Cowen

Jennifer Dirmeyer and Alexander Cartwright

David J. Hebert

Rosamaria Bitetti

Vincent Geloso

Predrag Rajsic and Glenn Fox

Steven Horwitz

This chapter is the editors introduction to Austrian Economics: The Next Generation, which includes a brief description of the workshop that produced the papers and short summaries of each contribution organized by sub-topic.

Keywords: Austrian economics; public choice economics; Bloomington school; evolutionary economics; entrepreneurship; economic history

This volume of Advances in Austrian Economics emerged out of the Sixth Biennial Wirth Workshop in Austrian Economics that was held March 2326, 2017 on the campus of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The success of that workshop was due to the work of a number of people and institutions. As always, I start by thanking the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta, and its director, Professor Joseph F. Patrouch, for their continued sponsorship of these workshops. Joe and his staff members at the Wirth Institute, Sylwia Adam-Ross and Rychele Wright, did exemplary work in organizing the logistics for the workshop. On behalf of all involved, I would to especially thank Alfred Wirth for his continued participation in, and support for, the workshop and its important role in forwarding the work of the Austrian school. I also thank Jacob T. Levy of McGill Universitys Research Group on Constitutional Studies, Matt Bufton of the Institute for Liberal Studies, and Jasmin Gunette of the Montreal Economic Institute for their help in the planning process and for co-sponsoring the Friday lunch. Peter Lewin gave us an inspiring keynote address that serves as the first paper in the volume. Daniel DAmico and Adam Martin took over the editorial process for the volume a bit sooner than planned when I became ill, and I am grateful for their willingness to step up. Finally, I thank the participants for producing a very strong set of papers and for the constructive and convivial atmosphere in which we discussed them.