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.


2009

Wal-Mart to the Rescue:  Private Enterprise’s Response to Hurricane Katrina,” The Independent Review, 13 (4), Spring 2009, pp. 511-28.

Fascism:  Italian, German, and American,” review of Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism:  The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, The Independent Review, 13 (3), Winter 2009, pp. 441-46.

Ought Implies Can,” The Freeman, 59 (4), May 2009, pp. 34-36.

Money:  How it Works and Why,” part of the “Key Concepts in Free Markets” series, Fraser Forum, Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, April 2009, pp. 16-17.

The ‘Forgotten People’ are Already Doing Something for Economic Recovery,” Washington Examiner, February 13, 2009.


2008

“Analogous Models of Complexity:  The Austrian Theory of Capital and Hayek's Theory of Cognition as Adaptive Classifying Systems,”Explorations in Austrian Economics, Roger Koppl, ed., volume 11 of Advances in Austrian Economics, 2008, pp.  143-66

Is the Family a Spontaneous Order?Studies in Emergent Order, 1, 2008, available at:  http://www.studiesinemergentorder.com/Fall08/8_SIEO_Vol1_2008_Horwitz.pdf (invited contribution).

Giving the Fed New Powers Ignores History,” op-ed, Cato Institute, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9462, June 13, 2008.

Government Intervention is Needed to Solve the Housing Crisis? It Just Ain’t So,” The Freeman, 58 (4), May 2008, pp. 6-7.

Profit:  Not Just a Motive,” The Freeman, 58 (2), March 2008, pp. 21-23.

Making Hurricane Response More Effective: Lessons from the Private Sector and the Coast Guard During KatrinaPolicy Comment #17, Mercatus Center, Washington, DC, March 19, 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.

Language, Monetary Exchange, and the Structure of the Economic Universe: An Austrian-Searlean Synthesis,” in Economics and the Mind, Barbara Montero and Mark White, eds., New York:  Routledge, 2007, pp. 75-88.


2006

Monetary Disequilibrium Theory and Austrian Macroeconomics: Further Thoughts on a Synthesis,” in Money and Markets: Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager, Roger Koppl, ed., Routledge, 2006, pp. 166-85.

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.


2002

Entrepreneurship, Exogenous Change, and the Flexibility of Capital,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 12 (1), March 2002, pp. 67-77  (invited submission for an issue in honor of Israel Kirzner).


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.

Keynes and Capitalism One More Time:  A Further Reply to Hill,” Critical Review, 12 (1/2),  Winter-Spring 1998, pp. 95-111 (invited reply).

Monetary Calculation and Mises's Critique of Planning,” History of Political Economy, 30 (3), Fall 1998, pp. 427-50.


1997

Labor Market Coordination and Monetary Equilibrium:  W. H. Hutt's Place in 'Pre-Keynesian' Macro,” Journal of Labor Research, 18 (2), Spring 1997, pp. 205-26.


1996

Capital Theory, Inflation, and Deflation:  The Austrians and Monetary Disequilibrium Theory Compared,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18 (2), Fall 1996, pp.287-308.  Reprinted in The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek, Vol III:  Economics, Peter J. Boettke, ed., Cheltenham UK:  Edward Elgar, 2000.

Keynes on Capitalism:  Reply to Hill,” Critical Review, 10 (3), Summer 1996, pp. 353-72 (invited submission).


1995

Feminist Economics:  An Austrian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Methodology, 2 (2), December 1995, pp. 259-279.


1994

Complementary Non-Quantity-Theory Approaches to Money:  Hilferding's Finance Capital and Free Banking Theory,History of Political Economy, 26 (2), Summer 1994, pp. 221-238.


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

A Subjectivist Approach to the Demand for Money,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 1 (4), December 1990, pp. 459-71.

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: May 24, 2009