Acknowledgments

In preliminary versions, several of these essays were presented at conferences at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. In particular, “The Poetics of Spontaneous Order” was delivered as the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at the Austrian Scholars Conference on March 15, 2002. The contributors wish to express their gratitude to Lew Rockwell, Jeffrey Tucker, Judy Thommesen, Kathy White, and other members of the Institute for their support and encouragement of this project over the years.

The essay “In Defense of the Marketplace” was published in two earlier (and truncated) versions: (1) one under the same title in The Ben Jonson Journal 8 (2001): 23–64; (2) the other under the title “The Law Versus the Marketplace in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair” in Solon and Thespis: Law and Theater in the English Renaissance, Dennis Kezar, ed. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), pp. 87–126.

An earlier version of the essay “Shelley's Radicalism” was published under the title “The Poet as Economist: Shelley's Critique of Paper Money and the British National Debt” in the Journal of Libertarian Studies 13 (1997): 21–44.

An earlier version of the essay “The Invisible Man and the Invisible Hand” was published under the same title in The American Scholar 68 (1999): 69–102.

An earlier version of the essay “Hyperinflation and Hyperreality” was published under the title “Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann in Light of Austrian Economics” in The Review of Austrian Economics 7 (1994): 3–29.

An earlier version of the essay “The Capitalist Road” was published under the same title in Quadrant, April 1998.