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Austrian economics and the mainstream: View from the boundary

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This is a revised version of the paper presented as the Hayek Memorial Lecture at the fifth Austrian Scholars Conference at the Mises Institute on April 16, 1999. I am grateful to Lew Rockwell and the Mises Institute for the invitation. The paper was written whilst holding a British Academy Research Readership and I am grateful to the British Academy for its support.

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Backhouse, R.E. Austrian economics and the mainstream: View from the boundary. Quart J Austrian Econ 3, 31–43 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12113-000-1002-8

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