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This leads him to reconstruct the theory of price in order to understand, as he puts it, \"how the decisions of individual participants in the market interact to generate the market forces which compel changes in prices, outputs, and methods of production and in the allocation of resources.\" In doing so, Kirzner offers a new appraisal of competition moving the entrepreneurial function back to center stage, thereby shedding new light on issues such as monopoly pricing, cartels, and pure profit. No other economist in recent times has been so closely identified with the Austrian School of economics as Kirzner. A leader of the generation of Austrian economists after Ludwig von Mises and F. A. 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According to the editors, that paper opened the door to Kirzner's research on the market process, leading six years later to the publication of \u003ci\u003eCompetition and Entrepreneurship.\u003c\/i\u003e In doing so, it paved the way to the modern Austrian theory of the market process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsrael M. Kirzner\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading economist in the Austrian School and Professor Emeritus of Economics at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter J. Boettke\u003c\/b\u003e is University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and the B\u0026amp;T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFr d ric Sautet\u003c\/b\u003e is an economist and a specialist in Austrian market process theory. 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Asserting that the problem with standard criticism of capitalist income distribution is a failure to see capitalism as a discovery procedure, Kirzner argues that production and subsequent profit are neither automatic nor guaranteed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important contribution to the larger debate of the capitalist system clarifies core economic issues, so that the positive science of economics can enlighten our understanding of justice in capitalist distribution. Successful production always results from the discovery of an opportunity to obtain new gains from trade, i.e., the discovery of entrepreneurial profit. Kirzner shows that profit is the just and fair possession of its discoverer. This is what he calls the finders-keepers rule: The finders-keepers rule asserts that an unowned object becomes the justly owned property of the first person who, discovering its availability and its potential value, takes possession of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Ebeling reviewed the work in 1989, saying, the heart of Professor Kirzner's argument is that every discovery of a new opportunity is the appropriation of that which had not existed before a human mind had seen the potential in that object. Kirzner's monograph is complemented here by three important articles on the subject of economic justice, a critique of Kirzner's theory, and a reply from Kirzner to that critique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirzner's finders-keepers rule of entrepreneurial profit and market distribution stands as one of the foremost defenses of the distribution of income and profit in the free-enterprise system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsrael M. 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