Steve Horwitz's Publications Page

This is just a selection of my old and recent publications. I hope to continue to add to this collection. Where possible, I have included a PDF of the actual published version. If you have any problems with the downloads, email me.


2008

Heterogeneous Human Capital, Uncertainty, and the Structure of Plans: A Market Process Approach to Marriage and Divorce” (with Peter Lewin), Review of Austrian Economics, 21 (1), March 2008, pp. 1-21.

 “Free-Market Money: A Key to Peace,” The Freeman, 58 (1), January-February 2008, pp. 13-15.


2007

Are Our Graduates College-Writing Ready? What High Schools Could Do to Help,”  Education Week, 27 (2), September 5, 2007, p. 27.

Capitalism and the Family,” The Freeman, July-August 2007, 57 (6). (PDF)

A Writing Program that Works:  St. Lawrence's Faculty-Driven First-Year Program,” (with Hillory Oakes), Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Clarion Call, August 29, 2007,

Leftists for Hayek:  What Happens When a Socialist Applies the Insights of Austrian Economics?” review of Ted Burczak's Socialism After Hayek, Reason Magazine, July 2007, 39 (3), pp. 65-69.

Review of F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents, The Definitive Edition (part of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, edited by Bruce Caldwell), Economic History Services website (EH.net), http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1226, June 2007.


2006

Hayek and Freedom,” The Freeman, May 2006, 56 (4), pp. 26-28.


2005

The Limits of Economic Expertise: Prophets, Engineers, and the State in the History of Development Economics,” (with Peter J. Boettke), History of Political Economy, 37 (1), annual conference volume supplement, 2005, pp. 10-39.

The Functions of the Family in the Great Society,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29 (5), September 2005, pp. 669-84.

 “Two Worlds at Once:  Rand, Hayek, and the Ethics of the Micro and Macro-cosmos,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 6 (2), Spring 2005, pp. 375-403 (invited contribution as part of a symposium on “Ayn Rand Among the Austrians”).

F. A. Hayek:  Austrian Economist,” review essay on Bruce Caldwell's Hayek's Challenge and Alan Ebenstein's Hayek's Journey, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 27 (1), March 2005, pp. 71-85. PDF of manuscript.


2004

Monetary Calculation and the Unintended Extended Order: The Misesian Microfoundations of the Hayekian Great Society,Review of Austrian Economics, 17 (4), December 2004, pp. 307-21.

Money and the Interpretive Turn:  Some Considerations,Symposium, 8 (2), Summer 2004, pp. 249-66 (invited contribution for a special issue in honor of G. B. Madison).


2003

Rand, Rush, and De-totalizing the Utopianism of Progressive Rock,”  Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 5 (1), Fall 2003, pp. 161-72 (invited contribution).

The Costs of Inflation Revisited,” Review of Austrian Economics, 16 (1), March 2003, pp. 77-95.

Say's Law of Markets:  An Austrian Appreciation,” in Two Hundred Years of Say's Law: Essays on Economic Theory's Most Controversial Principle, Steven Kates, editor, Northampton, MA:  Edward Elgar, 2003, pp. 82-98.


2001

From Smith to Menger to Hayek: Liberalism in the Spontaneous Order Tradition,The Independent Review, 6 (1), Summer 2001, pp 81-97. Reprinted in The Challenge of Liberty:  Classical Liberalism Today, Robert Higgs and Carl Close, eds., Oakland:  Independent Institute, 2006.


2000

From The Sensory Order to the Liberal Order: Hayek's Non-rationalist Liberalism,Review of Austrian Economics, 13 (1), March 2000, pp. 23-40.


1998

Hierarchical Metaphors in Austrian Institutionalism:  A Friendly Subjectivist Caveat,” in Methodological Issues in the Subjectivist Paradigm:  Essays in Memory of Ludwig Lachmann, Roger Koppl and Gary Mongiovi, editors, Routledge, 1998.


1993

Spontaneity and Design in the Evolution of Institutions:  The Similarities of Money and Law,Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 4 (4), December 1993, pp. 571-587.


1992

Monetary Exchange as an Extra-Linguistic Social Communication Process,Review of Social Economy, 50 (2), Summer 1992, pp. 193-214.  Reprinted in Individuals, Institutions, Interpretations:  Hermeneutics Applied to Economics, David L. Prychitko, editor, Aldershot, UK:  Avebury Publishing, 1995, chapter 9, pp. 154-175.


1990

Competitive Currencies, Legal Restrictions, and the Origins of the Fed:  Some Evidence from the Panic of 1907,” Southern Economic Journal, 56 (3), January 1990, pp. 639-49.  Reprinted in The International Library of Macroeconomic and Financial History:  Free Banking (3 vols.), Lawrence White, editor, Aldershot, UK:  Edward Elgar, 1993, v. 2, pp. 330-340.


Last updated: March 1, 2008