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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809192903321

Autore

Yagi Kiichirō <1947-, >

Titolo

Austrian and German economic thought : from subjectivism to social evolution / / Kiichiro Yagi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-44128-4

9786613441287

0-203-83076-8

1-136-82461-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics

Disciplina

330.15/70943

Soggetti

Austrian school of economics

Evolutionary economics

Economists - Austria

Economists - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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