Titles by Israel M. Kirzner

b. 1930

Israel Kirzner (b. 1930) is among the foremost scholars in the Austrian School of economic thought. He studied at the University of Cape Town, the University of London, and received his PhD studying under Ludwig von Mises at New York University where he taught for many years. One of his major areas of research concerns the role of entrepreneurship in economic activity.

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See the Liberty Matters online discussion on Israel M. Kirzner on Competitive Behavior, Industrial Structure, and the Entrepreneurial Market Process

Read the Liberty Classics [What Makes Capitalism Tick?]Arnold Kling’s (https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2018/KlingKirzner.html), Adam Martin’s What’s the Economist’s Point of View?, Steven Horwitz’s Competition and Entrepreneurship: The Fountainhead of the Contemporary Austrian School, and Rosolino Candela’s The Entrepreneurial Justice of the Market Process from Econlib

Watch the OLL Video The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Israel Kirzner

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