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# Austrian Economics 

##### An Introduction 

This book explains the Austrian School’s insights on a wide range of economic topics and introduces some of its key thinkers.

July 2020 

By Steven Horwitz 

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**What if economics began with people?**

Choice is an essential feature of the human condition. Every time we embark on a given plan of action, big or small, we make a choice. Whereas many economists model people’s behavior using idealized assumptions, economists of the Austrian School don’t. The Austrian School of Economics takes people as they are and constructs economic theories by examining the logical structure of the choices they make.

This book explains the Austrian School’s insights on a wide range of economic topics and introduces some of its key thinkers. It also explains the relationship between the Austrian School and mainstream economics and delves into the criticisms that Austrian School economists have mounted against communist and socialist economic thought.

[Click here to learn more about the book at Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org.](https://www.libertarianism.org/books/austrian-economics-introduction)

##### About the author 

Steven Horwitz is Economics Editor at Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org and Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise at Ball State University. Horwitz has written extensively on Austrian economics, Hayekian political economy, monetary theory and history, and macroeconomics.