Regulation, more regulation, partial deregulation, and reregulation : the disequilibrating nature of a rent-seeking society / Bruce L. Benson -- The Austrian theory of the business cycle : reflections on some socio-economic effects / Walter E. Grinder, John Hagel -- The political economy of crisis management : surprise, urgency, and mistakes in political decision making / Roger D. Congleton -- The conflict about the middle of the road : the Austrians versus public choice / Erik Moberg -- The dynamics of interventionism / Sanford Ikeda -- If government is so villainous, how come government officials don't seem like villains? with a new postscript / Daniel B. Klein -- Ulysses and the rent-seekers : the benefits and challenges of constitutional constraints on Leviathan / Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard -- The ongoing growth of government in the economically advanced countries / Robert Higgs -- The political economy of the dynamic nature of government intervention : an introduction to potentials and problems / Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard -- Interventionist dynamics in the U.S. energy industry / Robert L. Bradley -- The dynamics of interventionism : a case study of British land use regulation / Mark Pennington -- Harm reduction and sin taxes : why Gary Becker is wrong / Mark Thornton -- Government regulation of behaviour : in public insurance systems / Rolf Höijer -- Interventionism and the structure of the Nazi state, 1933-1939 / Oliver Volckart -- Law and politics : reflections upon the concept of a spontaneous order and the EU / Jan-Erik Lane -- Professor Tullock on Austrian business cycle theory / William Barnett, Walter Block -- The Austrian view of depressions / Gordon Tullock -- From laissez-faire to Zwangswirtschaft / John Hagel, Walter E. Grinder -- Austrian economics, praxeology and intervention / Walter Block, William Barnett.

Since the works by Ludwig von Mises and F.A. von Hayek in the 1920s, the Austrian School of Economics has developed a unique analysis of how the interventions by governments may cause problems, which in turn may lead to calls for further intervention. The Austrian concept of how such a dynamic of interventionism may evolve has however never been very influential outside the Austrian School nor been widely applied for empirical studies. This volume seeks to bring together economists and political scientists with perspectives from both Austrian and public choice analysis so as to further enrich and apply the Mises-Hayek logic, as well as critically assess its value.

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