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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785456303321

Titolo

Austrian economics : historical and philosophical background / / edited by Wolfgang Grassl and Barry Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011, c1986

ISBN

1-136-82355-7

1-136-82356-5

1-283-24198-6

9786613241986

0-203-83061-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Altri autori (Persone)

GrasslWolfgang

SmithBarry <1952->

Disciplina

330.157

Soggetti

Austrian school of economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1986 by Croom Helm Limited.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE: AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS FROM MENGER TO HAYEK; 1 AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND AUSTRIAN PHILOSOPHY; 2 THE SECOND AUSTRIAN SCHOOL OF VALUE THEORY; 3 INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF AUSTRIAN LIBERALISM; 4 MARKETS AND MORALITY: AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOUR; 5 BRENTANO ON PREFERENCE, DESIRE AND INTRINSIC VALUE; 6 EMANUEL HERRMANN: ON AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN CHAPTER OF AUSTRIAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY; 7 THE AUSTRIAN CONNECTION: HAYEK'S LIBERALISM AND THE THOUGHT OF CARL MENGER

8 AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS UNDER FIRE: THE HAYEK-SRAFFA DUEL IN RETROSPECTNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1986, this book presents a reissue of the first detailed confrontation between the Austrian school of economics and Austrian philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Brentano school. It contains a study of the roots of Austrian economics in the liberal political theory of the nineteenth-century Hapsburg empire, and a study of the relations between the general theory of value underlying



Austrian economics and the new economic approach to human behaviour propounded by Gary Becker and others in Chicago.  In addition, it considers the connections between Austrian methodology