'The Economics of Time and Ignorance': A critical re-examination after 25 years.

This article serves as the introduction to a symposium on O'Driscoll and Rizzo's The Economics of Time and Ignorance. The book was first published in 1985. The symposium aims to provide a retrospective assessment of the book's contribution to modern Austrian economics. The article characterizes the book's essential features and gives a brief sketch of the intellectual backdrop that provided the impetus for the book. It also summarizes the five other papers that are part of the symposium, including the responses by the two authors themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]