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Revision as of 20:30, 9 July 2005
Don Lavoie (April 4, 1951 - November 6, 2001) was an Austrian school economist. He worked at the Cato Institute. He wrote a splendid book National Economic Planning: What Is Left? (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1985). He was influenced by Friedrich Hayek, Michael Polanyi and Ludwig Lachmann.
Among his students, there are several great contemporary Austrian economists like Peter Boettke, David Prychitko, Steve Horwitz, Ralph Rector, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Howie Baetjer and Virgil Storr.
Don Lavoie was co-founder of the interdisciplinary unit known as the Program on Social & Organizational Learning which offers a Master's degree in Organizational Learning.
As a scholar, he studied the philosophy of the social sciences (especially the application of hermeneutics to economics) and Comparative Economic Systems (especially Marxian theories of socialism).
As an early professor, he worked on the philosophy and practice of electronically mediated discourse. And particularly, he knew the importance for organizations to explore new ways of cultivating interactive learning environments (groupware and hypertext software environments) in order to enhance communicative processes. So he showed the fundamental nature of social learning processes, whether in market exchanges, in verbal conversations, or in hypertext-based dialogue.
In the book Culture and Enterprise: The Development, Representation and Morality of Business written with Emily Chamlee-Wright, they take into account the important role of culture in a nation's economic development.