Win-Win

§The work

The magnum opus

Two decades of research and teaching at the scholarium, condensed into one book. For the first time a single volume joins the whole depth and breadth of the Austrian school with readability: the theory is told as world history, and it leads into practice. Thinking clearly, building ventures, stewarding wealth, choosing one's place, living well: the final part turns the school's way of seeing into a tool.

25 chapters · six parts · 387 pages · 25 chapter plates · 202 sources · margin scholia

§Three threads

Hand, Fist, Brain

§The arc

Practice first, then theory, then practice again at the end

Three times humanity has discovered the order of exchange: with its hands, with its head, and most bitterly in loss. And three times it forgets again, because forgetting is built into the order's success. The prologue opens with the invisible miracle of the everyday: hundreds of power plants, millions of consumers, and a single number they all hold steady together, 50 hertz, without a conductor.

1. IPractice before TheoryPrehistory to antiquity
2. IIConfessionals, Cities, Counting HousesMiddle Ages to 1800
3. IIIVienna: The Theory of Practice1800–1945
4. IVThe Paper Money Age1945–2009
5. VThe Rediscovery2009 to the present
6. VIThe School in PracticeTraining judgement for crisis and change

From the 25 chapters