Israel M. Kirzner

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Israel M. Kirzner

Israel Meir Kirzner (born February 17, 1930 in London ) is an American economist from the Austrian School . He is Professor of Economics at New York University .

Life

Kirzner was born on February 17, 1930 in London to a rabbi and Talmudist . He lived in Cape Town from 1940 , where he also studied at the University of Cape Town from 1947 to 1948. As an external student he was enrolled at the University of London from 1950 to 1951 . In 1954 he graduated from Brooklyn College with a BA (summa cum laude). He completed his studies at New York University with an MBA in 1955 and a Ph.D in 1957. At NYU he studied with Ludwig von Mises, among others .

From 1954 was in various positions at New York University , where he finally received a chair in 1968.

Kirzner is an ultra-orthodox rabbi and Talmudist, he learned from Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner at the yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin.

to teach

Kirzner's teachings are significantly influenced by his teacher Ludwig von Mises . He particularly researches the economic role of the entrepreneur . He sees information-creating entrepreneurship as an aspect of all human activity. He considers the model of complete competition and complete information to be useful but incomplete. Influenced by Friedrich von Hayek , he emphasizes the discovery and process character of markets.

An entrepreneur in the sense of Kirzner is therefore especially an entrepreneur who develops an eye for idle resources and free potential. The Kirzner entrepreneur thereby - unlike the entrepreneur Schumpeterian stamp - contributes to the economic equilibrium by employing idle production factors .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. Much-cited examples are the export of chicken feet (slaughterhouse waste) from Brazil and Argentina to East Asia, where they are considered valuable sources of protein, or the fishing of water hyacinths (harmful weeds) from Southeast Asian waters and the use of the fibers in the furniture industry; see http://www.entrepreneurship.de/about/ansatz/literatur/publikationen/netz-weiter-werfen/genese/vorhandenes-enthaben/  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.entrepreneurship.de  

Works (selection)

Essays
  • Entrepreneurial Discovery and The Competitive Market Process. An Austrian Approach . In: Journal of economic literature , Vol. 35 (1997), pp. 60-85.
Books
  • Discovery, Capitalism and Distributive Justice . Blackwell, Oxford 1989, ISBN 0-631-16153-8 .
  • The Economic Point of View. An Essay in the History of Economic Thought . Liberty Fund, Indianapolis 2009, ISBN 978-0-86597-734-1 (reprinted from Kansas City 1976 edition).
  • The Meaning of Market Process. Essays in the development of modern Austrian economics . New edition Routledge, London 1996, ISBN 0-415-13738-1 .
  • Paradox upon paradox. Economic order and entrepreneurial activity . Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena 1999 (Lectiones Jenenses; 19).
  • Competition and entrepreneurship ( "Competition and Entrepreneurship"). Mohr, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-16-340851-6 (economic and economic law studies; 14).

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