Pierre Desrochers

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A Geographical Perspective on Austrian Economics

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Pierre Desrochers

Volume 1, No. 2 (Summer 1998) A Geographical Perspective on Austrian EconomicsPierre Desrochers About a year ago I more or less suddenly realized that I have spent my whole professional life as an...

On the Abuse of Patents as Economic Indicators

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Pierre Desrochers

Volume 1, No. 4 (Winter 1998) Patents have a long history as a proxy for inventive activity. Although these data lost ground in the early 1960s to other measures of technical innovation, they have...

Review of The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok, eds.

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Pierre Desrochers

Volume 7, No. 2 (Summer 2004) Perhaps the best concise summary of this book is given by editor Alexander Tabarrok in his concluding chapter. As he points out, where most urbanists see market failures...

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