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1 online resource (202 pages) |
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Front Cover; Austrian and German Economic Thought; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; On citations; General introduction; 1. Portrait of an Austrian liberal: Max Menger's politics; The eldest of the three Menger brothers; Emergence as a leader of the Young generation; Max Menger on economic issues; Fight for a liberal cause; Max and social problems; Nationality, democracy, and liberalism; Max, Carl, and Anton compared; 2. Carl Menger as journalist and tutor of the Crown Prince; Not merely an episode; Experience in journalism |
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From market report to marginal utility theoryService to Crown Prince Rudolf; 3. Carl Menger's Grundsätze in the making; The Menger Papers; Carl Menger turns to economics; The economic inquiry of 1867-68; Shaping the Grundsätze; Methodology prior to 1871; 4. Carl Menger and historicism in economics: From Carl Menger to Max Weber; Carl Menger as a German economist; The Grundsätze and its reviewers; Themes of the Menger-Schmoller duel of 1883/84; Max Weber's reception of Menger; 5. Origin of Böhm-Bawerk's theory of interest and capital; Austrian capital theory; Böhm-Bawerk's starting point |
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Material found in the Hayek libraryThe 1876 manuscript; The Menger-Böhm-Bawerk correspondence, 1884-85; Split in the Positive Theory; Final stage of the birth of the Positive Theory; 6. Anonymous history in Austrian economic thought: From Carl and Anton Menger to Friedrich von Wieser; "Organic" origin of institutions: another aspect of the debateon method; Carl Menger versus Anton Menger: "organic" origin and "power relations"; Friedrich Wieser on power and mass politics; Social elements in anonymous history: concluding remarks; 7. Alternative equilibrium vision in Austrian economics |
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Correspondence between L. Walras and the AustriansFriedrich Wieser's natural value; Aftermath: shift into the socialist calculation debate; 8. Karl Knies, Max Weber, and Austrians: A Heidelberg connection; Karl Knies' place in recent literature; Knies as teacher; Course on general economics; Austrians and Max Weber; 9. Determinateness and indeterminateness in Schumpeter's economic sociology: the origin of social evolution; The fourth field of economic analysis; "Socio-culturaldevelopment" in the first edition of Entwicklung; Schumpeter and the concept of "evolution." |
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Schumpeter's encounter with A.P. UsherSchumpeter's last position; Concluding remarks: was Schumpeter a fatalist?; 10. Evolutionary reading of Max Weber's economic sociology; The Marx-Weber problem in Japan; Functionalism, intellectualism, and evolutionism; Weber's encounter with evolutionism; Evolutionary argument in "interpretative sociology"; Concluding remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the€German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science in Austria and Germany in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It deals with how the emergence of the new school (Austrian School) changed the focus of social science in the German speaking world, and how it prepared the introduction of an€evolutionary perspective in economics, politics, and sociology. Based on (mostly hitherto unknown) primary evidence, this development is lively described in a series of encounters and decis |
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Print version record |
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Austrian school of economics.
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Evolutionary economics.
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Economists -- Austria
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Economists -- Germany
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
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Austrian school of economics
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Economists
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Evolutionary economics
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Austria
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Germany
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136824616 |
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1136824618 |
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9780203830765 |
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0203830768 |
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