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Peter Lewin's Home Page Clinical Full Professor, Managerial Economics
This page may be of use to students and interested colleagues. I have included links to my courses, some recent and current work, and my personal interests. |
“There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
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Lewin’s Laws: 1. When all else fails use common sense. 2. You cannot know the unknowable. 3. Other people’s mathematics is always more difficult than your own. (I have adopted this one from someone – I forget whom). 4. The question we should be asking is not: What should we do?, it is rather: Who should decide what we should do? |
Teaching
Courses: - I make extensive use of eLearning in all my courses - Log into eLearning and click on the relevant course to enter.
Click on the course title to go to the course (syllabus) web page
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COURSE |
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MECO |
6303 |
0W1 |
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FIN |
6308 |
OW1 |
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BA |
1320 |
002 and 501 |
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FIN |
3340 |
501 |
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SYSM |
6319 |
S01 |
¨ Academic Interests
Austrian Economics, capital theory, the economics of discrimination, the economics of the family.
¨ Current Work (Books, Book Reviews, Articles and Working papers):
Books:
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Recipient of the 1999 Smith Prize for the best book published on Austrian Economics
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2. The Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory and Policy, Essays by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, Edited with an Introduction and Conclusion by Peter Lewin (New York: New York University Press; and London: Palgrave (formerly Macmillan) 2002). |
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3. Austrian Capital Theory: A Modern Survey of the Essentials with Nicolas Cachanosky (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) (New
York and London: Routledge, 2021)
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Articles and Papers
Popular
1. How reducing the deficit would solve Trump's China trade imbalance problem Dallas Morning News, Jan. 2 2019.
2. How price gouging can be beneficial for victims of natural disasters Dallas, Morning News, Oct. 13, 2018.
3. How “Capitalism” Became a Dirty Word, Foundation for Economic Education, September 26, 2018.
4. The Prosperity of Economies and the Poverty of Economics: Why has the economics profession failed? Prepared for the Friedberg Economics Seminar Jerusalem, October 2014
5. What Do We Know For Certain About Uncertainty? Keynote address, Legatum Institute, Charles Street Symposium, June, 10, 2012
6. Austrian Capital Theory: Why it Matters The Freeman, June 2012.
7. Free-Marketeers Should Welcome Regulation? The Freeman, October 2009.
8. Recycling Discredited Ideas The Freeman, April 2009.
Academic
1.
“How
should an Austrian economist teach the theory of the firm: do the equi-marginal
conditions still apply?” Review of Austrian Economics (2021)
2.
Capital
and Finance: Theory and History. New York: Routledge (2021) with Nicolas
Cachanosky.
3.
Entrepreneurship
is a Theory of Capital and Finance: Illustrating the use of Subjective
Quantification. Managerial and Decision Economics, January
2020, with Nicolas Cachanosky.
4.
Austrian Capital Theory, Cambridge University
Press: Elements in Austrian Economics Series, 2019 – with Nicolas Cachanosky.
5.
“Cyclical
Fluctuations and the Structure of Production” Cambridge Journal of
Economics January 2019 – with Giampaolo Garzarelli
and Bill Tulloh .
6.
The Microfoundations of the
Microfoundations of the Austrian Business Cycles Theory Review of Austrian
Economics forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-018-0430-7
7.
The Role of Capital Structure in
Austrian Business Cycle Theory. , with Nicolas
Cachanosky The Journal of Private Enterprise (33).2:21-32, 2018.
8.
The
Average Period of Production: The History of an Idea with Nicolas Cachanosky The
Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 40(1) 81-98, 2018.
9.
Substance
and Semantics: The Question of Capital Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, 150, 423–431, 2018
10. Capital Valuation, What
is it and Why Does it Matter? Insights from Austrian Capital Theory, Journal
of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis 2016.
12. Ludwig Von
Mises’s Approach to Capital As a Bridge Between
Austrian and Institutional Economics- with Eduard Braun and Nicolas
Cachanosky, Journal of Institutional Economics, 2016
14. Policy Design
and Execution in a Complex World, Advances in Austrian Economics 20,
165-383, 2016
15. Plan-Coordination:
Who Needs it? Review of Austrian Economics, 2015
16. Financial
Foundations of Austrian Business Cycle Theory, with Nicolas
Cachanosky Advances in Austrian Economics 20, 15-44, 2016
17. An Empirical
Application of the Eva® Framework to Business Cycles with Nicolas Cachanosky, Review of
Financial Economics 30: 60–67, 2016
21. Entrepreneurial Opportunity as the Potential to Create
Value, Review of Austrian Economics, (DOI 10.1007/s11138-013-0245-5) 28:1–15, 2015.
23. Hayek and Lachmann and the Complexity of Capital R. Garrison (ed.) The
Elgar Companion to Hayek Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013
24. The Austrian School of Economics and the Implications of
Subjectivism – conference paper 2012
25. The Subprime Crisis, with Adrian Ravier, Quarterly
Journal of Austrian Economics, 2012, 15(1): 45-74.
26. The Capital Based
View of the Firm, Review of Austrian Economics 2011, 24 (4): 335–354.
29. The Capital Idea and the Scope of Economics. Review of
Austrian Economics, 2005, 18 (2 )145-167.
30. Facts, Values and the Burden of Proof The
Independent Review, Spring, 2007, XI (4) 503-517.
33. The Development of Austrian Economics: Revisiting the
Neoclassical Divide. Review of Austrian Economics 14 (4) 2001, 239-251.
34. The Market Process and the Economics of QWERTY: Two Views Review of
Austrian Economics, 14 (1), 2001, 65-96.
35. Rent
and Resources: A Market Process Perspective with Steven E. Phelan,
in Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic
Organization, Edited by Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein, Aldershot:
Edward Elgar, 2001.
36. Arriving at a Strategic Theory of the Firm with Steven E. Phelan International Journal of Management
Reviews. December 2000.
37. My Teacher and his Legacy, Contribution to:
Professor Lachmann (1906 - 1990): Scholar, Teacher, and Austrian School Critic
of Late Classical Formalism in Economics in American Journal of Economics
and Sociology 59 (3), July 2000, 381-390.
38. William Hutt and the
Economics of Apartheid Constitutional Political Economy 11(3), October 2000.
39. An
Austrian Theory of the Firm, with Steven E. Phelan, Review of Austrian Economics,
13 (1), 2000 59-80.
40. Firms,
Strategies, and Resources: Contributions from Austrian Economics, with Steven
E. Phelan, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, (2), 1999, 3-18.
42. The
Firm, Money and Economic Calculation American Journal of Economics and
Sociology, October 1998.
43. Hayekian
Equilibrium and Change Journal of Economic Methodology 1997, 4:2, 245-266.
44. Capital and Time:
Variations on a Hicksian Theme,
Advances in Austrian Economics vol, 4, 1997, 63-74.
45. Capital
in Disequilibrium: A Reexamination of the Capital Theory of Ludwig M. Lachmann History of Political
Economy
Winter 1997, 1997, 29(3) 523-548.
46. Rothbard
and Mises on Interest: An Exercise in Theoretical Purity Journal of the
History of Economic Thought, Spring 1997, 141-159.
48. Time
Complexity and Change: Ludwig M. Lachmann's Contributions to the Theory of
Capital Advances in Austrian Economics vol. 3, 1996.
49. Methods
and Metaphors in Capital Theory Advances in Austrian Economics vol. 2,
1995.
50. Capital
Theory entry in Companion to Austrian Economics, edited by Peter
Boettke (Edward Elgar, 1994).
52. Equality
at any Price manuscript (an examination of the logic of affirmative action)
Book Reviews:
1. An Advanced Introduction for Austrian Economics, Cheltenham, UK—Northampton, MA USA: Edward Elgar, 2014
¨ Austrian links:
FEE Foundation for Economic Education
Jewish Philosophy and education
Tennis (used to play); soccer, rugby, cricket.
Classical music and opera in particular.