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The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is please to announce the winners of the 2009 Foundation for Economic Education Prizes for best book and best article in Austrian economics.
2009 FEE Prize for best book in Austrian Economics
Richard Wagner, 2007, Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance: An Exploratory Essay. Edward Elgar.
In Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance, Richard Wagner offers a social-theoretical analysis of public finance. Standard public finance models treat government as an external intervener in market systems. Working in the tradition of Knut Wicksell, Wagner offers an alternative approach which treats government as a polycentric process of interaction. The result of this treatment is that the theory of public finance is viewed as complementary to, instead of being at odds with, the theory of markets. In developing his alternative approach to public finance, Wagner is careful to highlight how his approach can strengthen the existing literature in public finance. The contributions of this book are several fold. Wagner makes a contribution to public finance by emphasizing government as a polycentric order. In doing so, he makes clear how notion of spontaneous order can be extended beyond markets and private interactions. Further, Wagner challenges the standard view of many economists which treat theories of markets and government as distinct endeavors.
2009 FEE Prize for best article in Austrian Economics
Virgil Storr, 2008, “The market as a social space: On the meaningful extraeconomic conversations that can occur in markets,”
Review of Austrian Economics 21(2/3): 135-150.
In “The Market as a Social Space,” Virgil Storr explores the noneconomic sociality that occurs in markets. Drawing on Richard Swedberg’s insight that the market is a “specific type of social structure” that it is not just an “abstract price-making mechanism, Storr develops a theory of how markets facilitate social activity and encourage noneconomic relationships. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, he presents a more complete picture of real-world markets. Second, by developing our understanding of markets as a social space, Storr provides a means for economists to engage in the ongoing debate taking place within sociology and anthropology. This debate focuses on the relationship between economic activity and community, as well as the impact of economic interaction on social relationships. Third, Storr extends Murray Rothbard’s insight that “in explaining the origins of society, there is no need to conjure up any mystic communion or ‘sense of belonging’ among individuals … In fact, it is far more likely that feelings of friendship and communion are the effects of a regime of (contractual) social cooperation rather than the cause.”
2009 Lavoie Graduate Student Essay Competition Winners
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce the winners of the Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition. Three prizes are given, each worth $1000, to be used to pay expenses to attend the Southern Economic Association meetings this November in San Antonio, TX, where the winners will present their work on a special panel at 10:00am, Saturday, November 21, 2009. Prize awards are contingent on attending the SEA meetings and the SDAE’s annual business meeting and awards banquet.
This year's winners are:
Chad Seagren
George Mason University
"Agent Based Modeling and Austrian Analysis of Accident Law"
Arash Molavi Vasséi
University of Hohenheim
"Static Tools for Dynamic Analysis: Ludwig von Mises’s Business Cycle Theory"
David Skarbek
George Mason University
"Self-Governance in San Pedro Prison"
SDAE Listserv Information
The Society is happy to announce the creation of a scholarly listserv devoted to the Austrian school of economics. The "AustrianEcon" listserv is devoted to the ideas of the Austrian school of economics and related contributions to the understanding of human action and its consequences. We aim for as broad a discussion as possible across any disciplines or schools of thought that relate to Austrian economics. It must be emphasized that the listserv is not a forum for political discussion except to the degree that such issues have a direct connection to the scholarly contributions of the Austrian school both past and present.
Membership in the list is subject to the approval of the list manager. Membership will be limited to those affiliated with universities, think-tanks, or other scholarly/intellectual organizations. Exceptions for those not so affiliated will be granted on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the list manager. SDAE members are automatically eligible for membership. You can request to join the list by emailing the list manager Steve Horwitz at sghorwitz@stlawu.edu .
We strongly encourage members to use the list as a vehicle for the dissemination of their current scholarship. In particular, discussion of working papers is a very valuable use of the listserv. Any members wishing to make a paper available for discussion should contact the list manager and the paper will be posed at the SDAE website for list members to access. Austrian analyses of current contributions to the mainstream economics literature are also strongly encouraged as is discussion of current work in related disciplines (e.g., evolutionary psychology, political science, history, etc.) or traditions in economics (e.g., constitutional political economy, public choice, or various heterodox schools etc.) of which members might be less aware.
AustrianEcon is a moderated listserv. All messages require approval of the list manager.
Review of Austrian Economics