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	Israel Kirzner - Definition, explanation
		Israel Meir Kirzner (Yisroel Mayer Kirzner) (born February 13, 1930) is a leading economist in the Austrian School.
		Kirzner's major work is in the economics of entrepreneurship and ethics and economics.
		Kirzner is also an ordained Haredi rabbi and Talmud scholar, and serves as the rabbi of the congregation once headed by his father in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/i/is/israel_kirzner.php (421 words)

	Israel Kirzner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Israel Meir Kirzner (Yisroel Mayer Kirzner) (born February 13, 1930) is a leading economist in the Austrian School.
		The son of a well-known rabbi and Talmudist, Kirzner was born in London, England and came to the United States via South Africa.
		Kirzner is also an ordained Haredi rabbi and Talmud scholar, and serves as the rabbi of the congregation once headed by his father in Brooklyn, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israel_Kirzner (385 words)

	Israel (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Israel (Hebrew ישׂראל Yisra'el or Yiśrā’ēl, meaning "Upright (with) God") was the name given to the biblical patriarch Jacob.
		In Israel the name Israel Israeli is sometimes used to mean someone whose name is unknown or unspecified.
		Israel, Bishop of Caucasian Albania in the seventh century CE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israel_(disambiguation) (263 words)

	Israel Kirzner's Entrepreneurship
		Kirzner's procedure is based on an analogy, or parallel, between what he calls the entrepreneurial element in individual decision-making and entrepreneurship in the market interaction.(1973: 31; 1979: 172; and 1982) Accordingly, his first step is to discuss individual action.
		Kirzner says that just as there is a tendency for arbitrage to lead to equilibrium in a particular market, there is also a tendency for it to lead to a optimum general equilibrium, or equilibrium in all markets.
		Kirzner (1979: 110) points out that what he calls the "entrepreneurial element in the individual decision...becomes apparent" from [is derived from?] the idea that equilibrium assumes perfect knowledge.
	www.gunning.cafeprogressive.com /subjecti/workpape/kirz_ent.htm (4476 words)

	The Ethics of Capitalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kirzner’s contribution consists in showing that mainstream views of distributive justice have formed the ethical foundation of important political and social movements (of the socialists and social democrats), which have their origin in the static concept of economics.
		Unlike Kirzner, we argue that there are no exceptions to the principle of justice based on his definition of entrepreneurship, a principle universally applicable to all conceivable historical circumstances involving human beings intrinsically endowed with innate entrepreneurial and creative capacities.
		Kirzner’s main argument is that the supposed existence of an "externality" prevents the institutional improvements relevant to society from materializing.
	www.acton.org /publicat/m_and_m/1999_fall/desoto.html (4926 words)

	Interview with Israel M. Kirzner
		Kirzner is author of seven additional books, his newest on capital and interest from Edward Elgar (1997), and dozens of articles, including several in the Austrian Economics Newsletter and The Review of Austrian Economics.
		KIRZNER: The two extremes, simply stated, are "equilibrium always" and "equilibrium never." The "equilibrium always" view is the strict neoclassical/Chicago perspective which never permits us to consider a world in which everything is not completely adjusted.
		KIRZNER: I've made the argument, in The Review of Austrian Economics, that it was partly a result of the socialist calculation debate in the 1930s.
	www.mises.org /journals/aen/aen17_1_1.asp (5858 words)

	Notes toward a paper celebrating Israel Kirzner
		Israel Kirzner’s most celebrated contribution to economics is his theory of entrepreneurship.
		Kirzner’s concept of alertness may be usefully understood as the propensity to problematize open possibilities.
		Kirzner’s thesis that entrepreneurship is costless is consistent with Mises’ view that every action entails a cost.
	alpha.fdu.edu /~koppl/alertness.htm (4589 words)

	Discovery and the Deepself
		Kirzner claims that Neoclassical theories tend to neglect the role of discovery in economic processes, instead focusing on issues of allocative efficiency (epitomized in the Fundamental Welfare Theorems of general equilibrium).
		Kirzner argues that the discovery variable points up a very significant comparative virtue of laissez-faire, a virtue neglected by Neoclassical equilibrium studies that posit a neatly characterized framework of given ends and means.
		Kirzner (1979, 146, 147) says, "one looks back at one's ignorance as upon a deplorable and embarrassing error," sometimes even as "a pity, possibly a tragedy." Although the scarcity of mind creates certain unavoidable trade-offs, we are nonetheless able to put mind resources into refining and developing our ability to listen to ourselves.
	lsb.scu.edu /~dklein/papers/deepself.html (12798 words)

	Israel M. Kirzner and the Austrian Theory of Competition and Entrepreneurship
		Israel Kirzner was born on February 13, 1930, in London, England.
		Part of Kirzner’s answer is a development of Hayek’s insight that corresponding to the division of labor in society is an inevitable division of knowledge.
		Central to Kirzner’s reasoning is that every discovery of a new opportunity is the appropriation of that which had not existed before a human mind had seen the potential for gain in a particular situation or in the use of some object or resource in a new and different way.
	www.fff.org /freedom/0801b.asp (1812 words)

	ILE - ¿QUIEN ES ISRAEL M. KIRZNER?
		Kirzner, por su parte, cree que el empresario es la fuerza impulsora de todo el proceso del mercado, y que éste, a su vez, está constituído por el conjunto de ¡as decisiones de compra de ¡os consumidores y las decisiones de venta de los empresarios-productores.
		Kirzner afirma que en el comportamiento económico de los participantes del mercado, los empresarios están en una situación de alerta frente a los cambios antes no observados, con el fin de poder obtener, a cambio de lo que tienen que ofrecer, mucho más de lo que hasta entonces podían conseguir.
		Kirzner retoma esta línea de pensamiento y afirma que el capitalismo tendrá un futuro de progreso y de avance dado que, silos empresarios actúan en un marco de mercado libre, la economía no vivirá situaciones de escasez gracias a las nuevas posibilidades que se irán descubriendo.
	www.ileperu.org /contenido/Articulos/israel_kirzner_ensayo_joseluis.htm (3821 words)

	2006 - Israel M. Kirzner-EntreprenÃ¶rskapspriser-Nuteks webbplats
		Dr Kirzner is professor emeritus at New York University and regarded as one of the world's most prominent researchers in economics.
		Kirzner states that entrepreneurship is essentially about the behaviours that drive the mechanics of the market.
		Kirzner clarifies the role of the entrepreneur in society and emphasizes that the behaviour of a single entrepreneur may be of importance for the renewal and rationalization of markets.
	www.nutek.se /sb/d/193/a/3088 (231 words)

	Israel Kirzner - Wikipédia
		Israel Kirzner, né le 13 février 1930 à Londres (Grande Bretagne).
		L'approche dynamique d'Israel Kirzner envisage le marché comme un processus et non comme un automatisme pré-déterminé, ce qui le rapproche de Friedrich Hayek dans sa manière de présenter la concurrence.
		Dans son livre, Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice (Découverte, Capitalisme et justice distributive) en 1989, Kirzner présente un aspect de l'éthique du capitalisme : lorsque l'entrepreneur est ouvert aux occasions de profit - situation d'"alerte" (alertness) ou de vigilance, il découvre de nouvelles manières d'utiliser certaines ressources.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israel_Kirzner (216 words)

	THE UNDISCOUNTABLE PROFESSOR KIRZNER
		Professor Kirzner's good scholarship shines though in all his writings, but here we see him as a veteran of many symposia and conferences complete with their unyielding question-and-answer sessions.
		Professor Kirzner, with his newly published Essays, and especially with his essay on the theory of interest, shows that it is very nearly that.
		As Professor Kirzner demonstrates time and again, the forward-looking, plan-oriented account of a capital-using economy wins out over the alternative accounts that focus on some isolated slice of time or on the physical productivity of the produced means of production.
	www.auburn.edu /~garriro/r24kirzner.htm (1459 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ludwig Von Mises: The Man and His Economics: Books: Israel M. Kirzner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kirzner, author of Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice (1989), was a student and ardent admirer of Mises.
		Kirzner's comment that Human Action isn't simply a compendium of Austrian thinking, but is truly a brilliant extension of Austrian thought to a vast swath of economic and sociological issues.
		Kirzner contends that Mises shored up these foundations "because he came to be convinced that the vitally important lessons which economics can teach are likely to be dismissed on methodological grounds by those representing special interests" (p.
	www.amazon.ca /Ludwig-Von-Mises-His-Economics/dp/1882926617 (2029 words)

	Category.org - Online Department Store - Search: Books - Israel Kirzner (Author) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Israel Kirzner presents an in-depth analysis of the Entrepreneur, developing an Austrian perspective independent of (but very similar to nonetheless) the Schumpeterian perspective.
		Kirzner offers an alternative to both the neoclassical theory of the firm and to the Schumpeterian "creative destruction" perspective of the theory of the firm.
		Kirzner writes in his typical style with much precision and detail and yet always keeps it light enough for an interested layman to read.
	www.category.org /category_search.php?mode=books&searchtype=AuthorSearch&search=Israel%20Kirzner (611 words)

	Laissez Faire Books
		With the end of the 2001 spring semester, one of the leading Austrian economists in the world, Dr. Israel M. Kirzner, has decided to retire from formal academic life at the age of 71.
		Kirzner has not only argued that the possibility of earning profits is desirable because it pragmatically acts as the incentive mechanism to help bring supply and demand into balance and to bring productive innovations to market.
		Kirzner has vehemently argued -- as did Mises and Hayek before him -- that government regulators and planners have neither perfect knowledge nor sufficient wisdom to direct the economic affairs of millions of people.
	www.lfb.com /index.php?action=help&helpfile=kirznert.htm (1839 words)

	Ludwig Von Mises: The Man and His Economics - PowerBookSearch!
		Kirzner (New York U.), a former student of von Mises, looks at the influences of the economic debates in Europe on von Mises' thought, traces his theories as they developed in his writings, and discusses both critical and supportive commentators on von Mises.
		ISI and Professor Kirzner are to be congratulated for this stimulating look at the life and work of Ludwig von Mises, who was surely the economic genius of the century.
		Kirzner�s clear analysis of the theoretical contributions of Mises is a needed scholarly achievement.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch1882926684.html (662 words)

	Against the Grain in Agricultural Economics by E. C. Pasour, Jr.
		Kirzner pointed out that most of the economists who emphasized efficiency and other advantages of the free market were associated either with the “Chicago School” or with “an expanding, well-articulated influence that clearly traced back to the Austrian subjectivist school.”
		Kirzner held that the influence of the latter school was “almost synonymous with Ludwig von Mises.”
		Kirzner’s book Competition and Entrepreneurship, which I had read shortly before attending the seminar, helped me to understand the market as a process and to appreciate the role of the entrepreneur in the market process — as did his later books on entrepreneurship.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig4/pasour1.html (3777 words)

	Israel M. Kirzner (NYU)
		The specification of the institutional environment in which enterpreneurship can be encouraged is elucidated in Kirzner's work on development economics, and (via the method of contrasts) in his examination of bureaucracy and regulation.
		As the contemporary leader of the Austrian School of Economics, Kirzner has worked tirelessly to revitalize a scientific tradition that embodies a deep appreciation for market processes and the political, legal, and social framework within which these processes are embedded.
		Moreover, the collapse of communist regimes in East and Central Europe, and the difficulties associated with transition and development policy, reveal that neoclassical economic theory is ill equiped to provide an understanding of both dynamic processes and the institutional infrastructure reuqired to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit.
	www.econ.nyu.edu /user/kirzner (3198 words)

	Reading List for Advanced Summer Seminar
		Kirzner, Israel M. "The Austrian School of Economics," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Macmillan, 1987).
		Kirzner, Israel M. "On the Method of Austrian Economics," in Edwin Dolan, ed., The Foundation of Modern Austrian Economics.
		Kirzner, Israel M. "Philosophical and Ethical Implications of Austrian Economics," in Edwin Dolan, ed., The Foundation of Modern Austrian Economics.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/pboettke/summer/reading2002.htm (1861 words)

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	tomgpalmer.com: Gentleman, Scholar, Economic Pioneer
		Kirzner has done more than anyone in the past fifty years to understand and explain entrepreneurship.
		If one reads only one esay by Kirzner, I would recommend “Competition, Regulation, and the Market Process: An “Austrian” Perspective”; if only one book by Kirzner, it would have to be his excellent Competition and Entrepreneurship, which has also just appeared in French as Concurrence et Esprit d’entreprise.
		Israel Kirzner is easily one of the most brilliant economists I've ever met (he was my doctoral advisor at NYU).
	www.tomgpalmer.com /archives/025651.php (280 words)

	Laissez Faire Books
		Kirzner was a student of Mises at New York University and draws on many years of collegial association.
		As would be expected, the result of Kirzner's efforts is a masterful work that presents a rather complete picture of Mises' economic vision.
		"Israel Kirzner's Ludwig von Mises is a welcome addition to the literature on von Mises and economics.
	www.laissezfairebooks.com /index.php?deptid=19253&parentid=2&stocknumber=LV8586&page=3&itemsperpage=24 (568 words)

	LibertyGuide.com - Israel Kirzner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Israel Kirzner, Professor of Economics at New York University, is arguably the most important scholar in the Austrian school of economic thought alive today.
		The author of many influential books including Essays on Capital and Interest, Kirzner studied under Ludwig von Mises while receiving his PhD.
		A tribute to Kirzner published in 2001, honoring his retirement.
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/people.php/75845.html (151 words)

	Intercollegiate Studies Institute - ISI Books - Ludwig von Mises
		But, as Israel Kirzner shows in the second installment in our Library of Modern Thinkers series, Mises' dedication was always first and foremost to discovering truths—and destroying falsehoods—within the science of economics.
		In this thorough yet concise introduction to Mises' life, economics, and influence, Kirzner (a former student of Mises and an influential free-market economist himself) traces the key elements of Mises' life, explains his core contributions to economic theory, and assesses his impact on twentieth century economics and political thought.
		Kirzner's deep admiration for Mises the man and economist shines from every page.
	www.isi.org /books/bookdetail.aspx?id=72a425d1-a46f-480f-bd4b-46159d9e33fd (252 words)

	Amazon.com: Ludwig Von Mises: The Man and His Economics (Library of Modern Thinkers): Books: Israel Kirzner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kirzner then continues on to delve into the school of economics that is nearly synonymous with von Mises, Austrian economics.
		Having been a student of von Mises, Kirzner is in a particularly good position to write of this man. In addition, Kirzner carried close ties with other Austrian economists of the time.
		Kirzner has done a superb job of showing the reader the life and economics of Ludwig von Mises.
	www.amazon.com /Ludwig-Von-Mises-Economics-Thinkers/dp/1882926617 (2739 words)

	Amazon.com: Competition and Entrepreneurship: Books: Israel M. Kirzner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kirzner argues that "it is more useful to look to price theory to help understand how the decisions of individual participants in the market interact to generate the market forces which compel changes in prices, outputs, and methods of production and in the allocation of resources."
		Israel Kirzner suggests that the entrepreneur drives the entire market process by acting upon previously unnoticed profit opportunities.
		Kirzner seems to suggest that entrepreneurs are some sort of superhuman animal that mystically bring buyers to their products.
	www.amazon.com /Competition-Entrepreneurship-Israel-M-Kirzner/dp/0226437760 (1203 words)

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