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Subject(s)

• Austrian school of economics [Browse]
• Evolutionary economics [Browse]
• Economists—Austria [Browse]
• Economists—Germany [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics. [More in this series]

Summary note

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 decisions by

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• General introduction
• Portrait of an Austrian liberal : Max Menger's liberal position
• Carl Menger as journalist and tutor of Crown Prince
• Carl Menger's Grundsätze in the making
• Carl Menger and historicism in German economics
• Anonymous history in Austrian economic thought
• Alternative equilibrium vision in Austrian economics
• Karl Knies, Max Weber, and Austrians : a Heidelberg connection
• Determinateness and indeterminateness in Schumpeter's economic sociology : the origin of social evolution
• Evolutionist turn of the Marx-Weber problem.

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ISBN

• 1-283-44128-4
• 9786613441287
• 0-203-83076-8
• 1-136-82461-8

OCLC

• 773564466
• 785776285

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203830765

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