Curriculum Vitae
(revised February 1998)
ISRAEL M. KIRZNER
Professor of Economics, New York University
- Born:
- February 13, 1930, London, United Kingdom
Lived in Cape Town,
South Africa, 1940-48
- Education:
- University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1947-48
University of
London (External Student), 1950-51 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY,
1952-54 New York University, 1954-57
- Degrees:
- B.A. summa cum laude, Brooklyn College, 1954
M.B.A. New
York University, 1955 Ph.D. New York University, 1957
- Academic Career
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1954-56 |
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Graduate Assistant, New York University |
1956-57 |
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Volker Fellow, New York University |
1957 |
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Earhart Fellow, New York University |
1957 |
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Lecturer, Brooklyn College |
1957-61 |
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Assistant Professor, New York University |
1961-69 |
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Associate Professor, New York University |
1968- |
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Professor, New York University |
- Administrative Responsibilities
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1969-70 |
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Acting Chairman, Joint Undergraduate Department of Economics,
New York University |
1971-72 |
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Executive Officer, All-University Department of Economics, New
York University |
1976-77 |
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Acting Chairman, Department of Economics, New York
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- Publications:
- BOOKS:
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- The Economics Point of View (Van Nostrand, 1960)
- reprinted, Sheed and Ward, 1976
- Romanian translation published, 1996
- Market Theory and the Price System (Van Nostrand, 1963)
- An Essay on Capital (A. M. Kelley, 1966)
- republished, see below (ix)
- Competition and Entrepreneurship (University of Chicago
Press, 1973)
- reprinted in paperback edition, 1978
- Spanish translation published, 1975
- German translation published, 1978
- Japanese translation published, 1985
- Portuguese translation published, 1986
- Korean translation published, 1996
- Italian translation published, 1997
- Perception, Opportunity and Profit: Studies in the Theory of
Entrepreneurship (University of Chicago Press, 1979)
- reprinted in paperback edition, 1983
- German translation published, 1988
- Discovery and the Capitalist Process (University of
Chicago Press, 1985)
- Discovery, Capitalism and Distributive Justice (Basil
Blackwell, 1989)
- Spanish translation published, 1995
- The Meaning of Market Process: Essays in the Development of
Modern Austrian Economics (Routledge, 1992)
- reprinted in paperback edition, 1996
- Essays on Capital and Interest: An Austrian Perspective
(Edward Elgar, 1996) [includes a republished version of item (iii)
above]
- How Markets Work: Disequilibrium, Entrepreneurship and
Discovery (Institute of Economic Affairs, London, UK, 1997)
- BOOKS EDITED
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- Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of
Ludwig von Mises (Lexington Books, 1982)
- Subjectivism, Intelligibility and Economic Understanding:
Essays in Honor of Ludwig M. Lachmann on his Eightieth Birthday
(New York University Press, 1986)
- Classics in Austrian Economics: A Sampling in the History of
a Tradition (London: William Pickering, 1994), 3 volumes, with
(three) introductions by the editor.
- ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
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- "Rational Action and Economic Theory," Journal of Political
Economy, (August 1962)
- "Rejoinder," Journal of Political Economy (February 1963)
- "The Premises of Growth Economics," New Individualist
Review (Summer 1963)
- "What Economists Do," Southern Economic Journal (February
1965)
- "Divergent Approaches in Libertarian Economic Thought,"
Intercollegiate Review (January-February 1967)
- "Methodological Individualism, Market Equilibrium and Market
Process," Il Politico (1967)
- "On Man-made Tightropes," National Review (February 27,
1968)
- "The 'Power' Problem on Campus," Intercollegiate Review
(Spring 1970)
- "Entrepreneurship and the Market Approach to Development," in
Toward Liberty (Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises), 1971
- "Advertising," Freeman (September 1972)
- "Tribute to Von Mises: On the Market," National Review
(November 9, 1973)
- [Item (x) above, reprinted in T. Machan, editor, The
Libertarian Alternative: Essays in Social and Political
Philosophy (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1974)]
- "Capital, Competition, and Capitalism," in Champions of
Freedom, Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series (Hillsdale College
Press, 1974)
- "Producer, Entrepreneur, and the Right to Property," in S.L.
Blumenfeld (editor) Property in a Humane Economy (Open Court,
1975)
- "Ludwig von Mises and the Theory of Capital and Interest," in
L.S. Moss, editor, The Economics of Ludwig von Mises: Toward a
Critical Reappraisal (Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1976)
- "On the Method of Austrian Economics," in E.G. Dolan, editor,
The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics (Kansas City:
Sheed and Wad, 1976)
- "Philosophical and Ethical Implication of Austrian Economics,"
in Dolan, op. cit.
- "Equilibrium versus Market Process," in Dolan, op. cit.
- "The Theory of Capital, " in Dolan, op. cit.
- "Discussion" in The Economic System, in an Age of
Discontinuity: Long Range Planning or Market Reliance? (New York
University Press, 1976)
- "Foreword" to a new edition of L. Mises, The Ultimate
Foundation of Economic Science, An Essay on Method (Sheed,
Andrews and McMeel, 1978)
- "Economics and Error," in L. Spadaro, editor, New Directions
in Austrian Economics (Sheed, Andrews and McMeel, 1978)
- "The Entrepreneurial Role in Menger's System," Atlantic
Economic Journal, September 1978
- "Entrepreneurship, Entitlement, and Economic Justice,"
Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1978
- [Item (xxiv) reprinted in J. Paul, editor, Reading Nozick:
Essays on Anarchy, State and Utopia (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1981)]
- "The Perils of Regulation: A Market Process Approach,"
Occasional Paper of the Law and Economics Center, University of
Miami School of Law, February 1979
- "Entrepreneurship, Choice and Freedom, in ORDO, Jahrbuch für
die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesselschaft, Band30 (Festgabe
für F.A. Hayek), May 1979
- "X-Inefficiency, Error and the Scope for Entrepreneurship," in
M. Rizzo, editor, editor, Time, Uncertainty and Disequilibrium:
Explorations of Austrian Themes (Lexington Books, D.C. Heath,
1979)
- "The Primacy of Entrepreneurial Discovery," in Prime Mover of
Progress, The Entrepreneur in Capitalism and Socialism
(Institute of Economic Affairs, [Readings 23]: London, 1980)
- "The Morality of Capitalist Success," Culver-Stockton College,
Canton, Missouri
- "Altruism, Social Responsibility, and the Market Economy,"
The Hillsdale Report, (Hillsdale College, 1972)
- "Policy Implications of Austrian Economics," in Journal of
Economic Affairs [London, UK] , Vol. 1, No. 3
- "Uncertainty, Discovery, and Human Action: A Study of the
Entrepreneurial Profile in the Misesian System," in Kirzner, editor,
Method, Process and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig
von Mises (Lexington Books, 1982)
- "Mises and the Renaissance of Austrian Economics," in Homage
to Mises: The First Hundred Years (Hillsdale College Press,
1981)
- "Mises on Entrepreneurship," in Wirtschaftspolitische
Blätter (no. 4, 1981)
- "The 'Austrian' Perspective," Bell and Kristol, editors, The
Crisis in Economic Theory (Basic Books, 1981)
- "The Theory of Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth," in
Encylcopedia of Entrepreneurship (C.A. Kent, D.L. Sexton,
K.H. Vesper, editors) [Prentice-Hall, 1982]
- "Entrepreneurship and the Future of Capitalism," in J. Backman,
editor, Entrepreneurship and the Outlook for America (Free
Press, 1983)
- "Entrepreneur and the Entrepreneurial Function: A Commentary,"
in J. Ronen, editor, Entrepreneurship: Where Did It Come From,
and Where Is It Going? (Lexington Books, 1983)
- "Die zentrale Bedeutung unternehmerischen Entdecksens," in
Zeitschrift für Wirtscxhaftspolitik, 1983 [translation of
item (xxix)]
- "Incentives for Discovery," Economic Affairs, January
1984
- "Economic Planning and the Knowledge Problem," Cato
Journal, vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 1984
- "Prices, the Communication of Knowledge, and the Discovery
Process, " in Kurt R. Leube and Albert H. Zlabinger, editors, The
Political Economy of Freedom: Essays in Honor of F.A. Hayek
(Munich-Vienna: Philosophia Verlag, 1984)
- "The Entrepreneurial Process," in Calvin A. Kent, editor, The
Environment for Entrepreneurship (Lexington Books, 1984)
- "Must Capitalism Yield to Socialism?", Economic Affairs,
April-June, 1985
- "Comment on R.N. Langois, 'From the Knowledge of Economics to
the Economics of Knowledge: Fritz Machlup on Methodology and on the
"Knowledge Society,"'" in Warren Samuels, editor, Research in the
History of Economic Thought and Methodology, vol. 3, 1985 [JAI
Press]
- "Another Look at the Subjectivism of Costs," in Kirzner,
editor, Subjectivism, Intelligibility and Economic
Understanding, (New York: New York University Press, 1986)
- "The Open-Endedness of Knowledge: Its Role in the F.E.E.
Formula," Freeman, March 1986
- "Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek: The Modern Extension
of Austrian Subjectivism," in Norbert Leser, editor, Die Weiner
Schule der Nationalökonomie (Vienna and Colgne and Graz: Herman
Bohlaus, 1986)
- "Roundaboutness, Opportunity and Austrian Economics," in Martin
J. Andersen, editor, The Unfinished Agenda, London, Institute
of Economic Affairs, 1986
- "Individualistic Capitalism," in Donna C. Charron, editor,
Views on Individualism, (St. Louis: St. Louis Humanities
Forum, 1986)
- "Entrepreneurship and American Competitiveness," in S.M. Butler
and W.J. Dennis, editors, Entrepreneurship: The Key to Economic
Growth, (Heritage Foundation and National Federation of
Independent Business)
- "Taxes and Discovery: An Entrepreneurial Perspective," in Dwight
R. Lee, editor, Taxation and the Deficit Economy: Fiscal Policy
and Capital Formation in the U.S. (San Francisco: Pacific
Research Institute, 1986)
- "Unternehmer: Finder von Beruf," in Wirtschaftswoche,
January 9th, 1987 [translated from English version
written expressly for the occasion].
- "The Economics of Errant Entrepreneurship," Freeman,
(August 1987)
- "The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians," in
Review of Austrian Economics, Rothbard and Block, editors,
Ludwid von Mises Institute and Lexington Books, 1987
- "Spontaneous Order and the Case for the Free Market," in
Ideas on Liberty: Essays in Honor of Paul L. Poirot
(Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, 1987)
- "The Austrian School of Economics," in The New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, 1987
- "Friedrich Hayek" [co-authored with Roger L. Garrison], in
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 1987
- "Economic Harmony," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics, 1987
- "Advertising in an Open-Ended Universe," Foreword to Robert B.
Ekelund, Jr. and Daniel S. Saurman, Advertising and the Market
Process (San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute, 1988)
- "Welfare Economics: A Modern Austrian Perspective," in W. Block
and L.H. Rockwell, editors, Man, Economy and Liberty: Essays in
Honor of Rothbard (Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1988)
- "Some Ethical Implications for Capitalism of the Socialist
Calculation Debate," Social Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 6,
Issue 1, Autumn 1988
- "The Use of Labels in Doctrinal History: Comment on Baird,"
Cato Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1989)
- "Menger, Classical Liberalism, and the Austrian School of
Economics," in Bruce Caldwell, editor, Carl Menger and his Legacy
in Economics (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990)
- "The Meaning of Market Process," in A. Bosch, P. Koslowski, and
R. Veit, editors, General Equilibrium or Market Process:
Neoclassical and Austrian Theories of Economics (Tubingen, J. C.
B. Mohr, 1990)
- "The Market Process: An Austrian View," in K. Groenveld, J.A.M.
Maks, and J. Muysken, editors, Economic Policy and the Market
Process, Austrian and Mainstream Economics
- "Carl Menger und die subjectivistische Tradition in der
Ökonomie" (translated from original English text contributed
expressly for this volume) in Horst Claus Recktenwald, editor,
Carl Mengers wegwisendes Werk (Düsseldorf: Verlag Wirtschaft
und Finanzen GMBM, 1990)
- "Commentary," [on S. Boehm, "The Austrian Tradition: Schumpeter
and Mises"] in Klaus Hennings and Warren J. Samuels, editor,
Neoclassical Economic Theory, 1870-1930 (Boston, Dordrecht,
London: Kluwer, 1990)
- "Self-Interest and the New Bashing of Economics," Critical
Review, Vol. 4, Number 1, Winter-Spring 1990
- "Knowledge Problems and Their Solutions: Some Relevant
Distinctions," Cultural Dynamics, Vol. III, no. 1, 1990
- "Discovery, Private Property, and the Theory of Justice in
Capitalist Society," in Journal des Economistes et des Études
Humaines, (Vol. 1, No. 3) October 1990
- "Human Action, Freedom, and Economic Science," in J. W. Robbins
and M. Spangler, editors, A Man of Principle, Essays in Honor of
Hans F. Sennholz (Grove City College press, 1992)
- "Subjectivism, Freedom, and Economic Law: Ludwig Lachmann
Memorial Lecture," South African Journal of Economics, Vol.
60 (1), March 1992
- "Friedrich A. Hayek, 1899-1992" [Obituary essay], Critical
Review, Vol. 5, No. 4, Fall 1991
- "The Ugly Market," Freeman, December 1974
- Item (lxxvi) reprinted in M.W. Hendrickson, editor, The
Morality of Capitalism (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY, Foundation for
Economic Education, 1992)
- "The Pure Time Preference Theory of Interest: An Attempt at
Clarification," in The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises (Jeffrey
M. Herbener, editor), Praxeology Press of the Ludwid von Mises
Institute and Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993
- "Ludwig M. Lachmann" [Obituary article] Journal des
Economistes et des Etudes Humaines
- "Entrepreneurship, Uncertainty and Austrian Economics," in Bruce
J. Caldwell and Stephen Boehm, editors, Austrian Economics:
Tensions and New Directions (Boston/Dordrecht/London: Kluwer
Academic Publshers, 1992)
- "The Morality of Pure Profit: The Logic and Illogic of a Popular
Phobia," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, vol.
4, No. 2/3
- "The Limits of the Market: The Real and the Imagined," in
Markwirtscgaft und Rechtsordnung (W. Moschel, M. E. Streit,
and U. Witt, editors, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschafts, 1994)
- "Il Profitto e la sua etica/Logica e illogica di una fobia
diffusa" (translation of item [lxxxi]) in Biblioteca della
liberta, January-March 1994
- Reprinting of item (lxx) in S. Zamagni, editor, The Economics
of Altruism (Edward Elgar)
- "On The Economics of Time and Ignorance" in P. J. Boettke and D.
L. Prychitko, editors, The Market Process, Essays in Contemporary
Austrian Economics (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994)
- "A Tale of Two Worlds: Comment on Shmanske," in Boettke and
Rizzo, editors, Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 1, JAI
Press, 1994
- "The Entrepreneur in Economic Theory," in E. Dahmen, Leslie
Hannah, and Israel M. Kirzner, The Dynamics of
Entrepreneurship (Institute of Economic Research, Lund
University, Sweden, 1994)
- "The Ethics of Competition," in H. Siebert, editor, The
Ethical Foundation of the Market Economy (Tubingen: J. C. B.
Mohr, 1994)
- "Entrepreneurship," in P. J. Boettke, editor, The Elgar
Companion to Austrian Economics, Edward Elgar, 1994
- "Value-freedom," in P. J. Boettke, editor, The Elgar
Companion to Austrian Economics, Edward Elgar, 1994
- "The Nature of Profits: Some Economic Insights and their Ethical
Implications," in R. Cowan and Mario J. Rizzo, editors, Profits
and Morality (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press,
1995)
- "The Subjectivism of Austrian Economics," in Gerrit Meijer,
editor, New Perspectives on Austrian Economics (London and
New York: Routledge, 1995)
- "Fifty Years of FEE - Fifty Years of Progress in Austrian
Economics," Freeman, vol. 46, no. 5
- "Government Regulation and the Market Discovery Process," in K.
R. Leube, ediotr, Die Osterreichische Schule der Nationalokonomie
Texte-Band 2, Von Hayek Bis White (International Library of
Austrian Economics), Manzsche Verlags - and
Universitätsbuchhandlung, Wien, 1996 [republication of an earlier
paper]
- "Reflections on the Misesian Legacy in Economics," Review of
Austrian Economics, Vol, 9, No. 2, 1996
- Item (xciii) translated in Spanish (Centro de Estudios
Economico-Sociales, Guatemala, 1996)
- Item (xciii) translated in Portuguese (Instituto Liberal De Sao
Paulo, Brazil, 1996)
- "Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process:
An Austrian Approach," Journal of Economic Literature (March
1997)
- "Austrian Economics and Mainstream Economics, 1930-1950: A Study
in Doctrinal Complementarity and Substitutability," in K. Leube, A.
M. Petroni, and J. Sadowsky, ediotrs, An Austrian in France,
Festschrift in Honour of Jacques Garello (Torino: La Rosa
Editrice, 1997)
- "The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought: An Austrian
Economist's Perspective," Advances in Austrian Economics,
Vol. 4, 1997
- "The Driving Force of the Market: The Idea of 'Competition' in
Contemporary Economic Theory and in the Austrian Theory of the
Market Process," in Richard M. Ebeling, editor, Austrian
Economics: Perspectives on the Past and Prospects for the
Future, (Hillsdale College Press, 1991)
- Item (ci), reprinted in David L. Prychitko, editor, Why
Economists Disagree: An Introduction to the Alternative Schools of
Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988)
- BOOK REVIEWS:
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- H. W. Briefs, Three Views of Method in Economics, in
Journal of Political Economy (December 1963)
- R. L. Smyth, editor, Essays in Economic Method, in
Journal of Political Economy (February 1964)
- G. L. S. Shackle, The Nature of Economic Thought, in
Journal of Business (April 1967)
- D. Dewey, Imperfect Competition, A Radical
Interpretation, in Journal of Business (October 1970)
- H. Manne, editor, Economic Policy and the Regulation of
Corporate Securities, in Journal of Business (October
1971)
- Yale Brozen, editor, Advertising and Society, in
Reason (November 1975)
- J. R. Hicks, Capital and Time, A Neo-Austrian Theory,
and J. R. Hicks and W. Weber, editors, Carl Menger
and the Austrian School of Economics, in Libertarian
Review (November 1975)
- J. W. Markham, Conglomerate Enterprise and Public Policy
and J. F. Winslow, Conglomerate Unlimited: The
Failure of Regulation, in American Political Science
Review (March 1977)
- J. K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, in
Libertarian Review (September 1977)
- L. Mises, On the Manipulation of Money and Credit, in
Reason (April 1979)
- F. A. Fetter, Capital, Interest and Rent: Essays in the
Theory of Distribution, edited, with an Introduction, by M. N.
Rothbard, in Austrian Economics Newsletter, Spring 1980
- B. M. Friedman, editor, New Challenges to the Role of
Profit, in Public Choice, Vol. 35/3
- H. Lepage, Tomorrow, Capitalism: The Economics of Economic
Freedom, in Inquiry (April 1983)
- G. J. Stigler, The Economist as Preacher and Other
Essays, in Inquiry (April 1983)
- D. H. Hausman, Capital, Profits and Prices: An Essay in the
Philosophy of Economics, in International Philosophical
Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Issue #90
- R. Hébert and A. Link, The Entrepreneur, in Southern
Economic Journal (October 1983)
- H. Frisch , editor, Schumpeterian Economics, in
Journal of Economic Literature (December 1983)
- M. Blaug, The Methodology of Economics, or How Economics
Explain, in Austrian Economics Newsletter (Spring 1984)
- G. Gilder, The Spirit of Enterprise, in Reason
(April 1985)
- Albert O. Hirschman. Rival Views of Market Society and other
Recent Essays, in Reason (August-September 1987)
- M. Currie and I. Steedman, Wrestling with Time: Problems in
Economic Theory, in Southern Economic Journal
- Mark Skousen, The Structure of Production, in Journal
of Economic Literature (December 1991)
- Bettina B. Greaves and Robert W. McGee, Mises, An Annotated
Bibliography: A Comprehensive Listing of Books and Articles by and
about Ludwig Von Mises, in Freeman (November 1993)
- Stavros Ioannides, The Market, Competition and Democracy: A
Critique of Neo-Austrian Economics, in Freeman (January
1994)
- Roy Cordato, Welfare Economics and Externalities in an
Open-Ended Universe: A Modern Austrian Perspective, in Cato
Journal, Vol. 13, No. L, (Spring/Summer 1993)
- Brigitte Berger, editor, The Culture of Entrepreneurship,
in P. J. Boettke and M. J. Rizzo, editors, Advances in Austrian
Economics, Vol. 1, 1994
- Jack Birner and Rudy Van Zijp, editors, Hayek, Co-ordination
and Evolution, His Legacy in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and The
History of Ideas, in Southern Economic Journal (April
1995)
- F. A. Hayek, Hayek and Hayek, An Autobiographical
Dialogue, edited by Stephen Kresge and Leif Wenar, in
Economic Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 2
- Christian Schmidt, editor, Uncertainty in Economic
Thought, in Southern Economic Journal (July 1997)
- Klaus H. Hennings, The Austrian Theory of Value and Capital:
Studies in the Life and Work of Eugen Von Böhm-Bawerk, in
Economic Affairs, Journal of the Institute of Economic
Affairs (December 1997)
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