The Austrian School of Economics and the Implications of Subjectivism
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1 This is an expanded rewriting of a paper presented to a conference on " Austrian Thought at the Turn of the Twentieth Century " in November 2012, at the University of Texas at Arlington, organized by Professor Gloria Zuniga Postigo, of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at that university. My thanks go to her for the generous invitation and to the participants of the conference for provocative questions and comments.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013