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10/8/01

FRIENDS OF LIBRARIES AT SLU CELEBRATE ECONOMICS PROF'S BOOK

CANTON -- The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence 
University will celebrate the publication of Associate Dean of the First Year 
and Associate Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz's book, Microfoundations and 
Macroeconomics:  An Austrian Perspective, with a reception on Friday, October 
19, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library. Horwitz 
will speak about the book at the event, which is open to the public, free of 
charge.
	Published by Routledge as part of its series Foundations of the Market 
Process, Horwitz's book is described as an "original and highly accessible 
work" that "provides the reader with an introduction to Austrian economics 
and a systematic understanding of macroeconomics. In the past, Austrian 
economics has been seen as almost exclusively focused on microeconomics, 
and defined by its subjectivist methodology and understanding of the market 
as a competitive discovery process, favoring a focus on phenomena such as 
price coordination and entrepreneurship over macroeconomics concepts."
	A graduate of the University of Michigan, with a master's degree 
and Ph.D. from George Mason University, Horwitz has been on the faculty 
at St. Lawrence since 1989. A specialist in monetary theory and history, 
macroeconomics and political economy, he is also the author of the 1992 
book Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order. Horwitz began 
a term as associate dean of the first year this fall.

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