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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822996303321

Titolo

Including a Symposium on Austrian Economics in the Postwar Era / / edited by Luca Fiorito, Scott Scheall, Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78560-959-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

Research in the history of economic thought and methodology, , 0743-4154 ; ; v. 34A

Altri autori (Persone)

FioritoLuca <1967->

ScheallScott

SuprinyakCarlos Eduardo

Disciplina

330.01

Soggetti

Business & Economics - Economic History

Economic theory & philosophy

Austria Economic conditions 20th century

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Board; Introduction; Notes; Part I: The Postwar Austrian Diaspora - A Symposium on Austrian Economics in the Wake of World War II; Introduction to a Symposium on Austrian Economics in the Immediate Postwar Period; The Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft (Austrian Economic Association) in the Interwar Period and beyond; Introduction; Some Stories Told about the NOeG; The Pre-History of the NOeG: The Gesellschaft Der Österreichischen Volkswirte

The Foundation of the NOeG 1918 and Its Inactivity through the 1920sThe Relaunch in 1927; 1927-1938: Years of High Theory?; After the Anschluss, 1938-1945; The Restoration after 1945; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Archival Sources; Appendix; The Moral Scholar and the A-Moral Scientist: The Responsibility of the Social Scientist in Austrian Economics before and after the migration; The Responsibility of the Scholar: From Menger to Hayek; Wertfreiheit, Value-Relevance, and Responsibility: The Moral



Scholar; Economics as Technique, the Economist as Technocrat

Austrian Economics as an Alternative Technique? Wertfreiheit MisunderstoodAlternate Currents within the Austrian Revival; Concluding Remarks: Responsibility and Institutions; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; The Nature of the Market in Mises and Weber; Introduction; The Nature of the Market in Human Action; The Market as a Social System; Consumer Sovereignty and Market Perception; The Nature of the Market in Max Weber; The Market as a Pure System of Purely Rational Action; Social Opposition to the Market Community; Mises and Weber on the Market: Conceptual Similarities

The Nature of the MarketThe Market's Autonomous Logic; The Impersonality of the Market; The Market in Society; Conclusion; Notes; References; "Un-Austrian" Austrians? Haberler, Machlup, and Morgenstern, and the Post-Emigration Elaboration of Austrian Economics; Prologue: The Rebirth of Austrian Economics and the Effacement of the Fourth Generation; Post-WWI Austrian Economics: Discontinuity, Instability and Internationalization; Depression and Interregnum: Austrians between Vienna and the United States; Austrians in America; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References

Systems, Structural Properties and Levels of Organisation: The Influence of Ludwig Von Bertalanffy on the Work of F.A. HayekIntroduction; Von Bertalanffy, Organismic Biology and System Theory; Bertalanffy's Influence, Part I: Hayek's Theoretical Psychology; Hayek's Theoretical Psychology: The Sensory Order; Bertalanffy's Influence on Hayek's Theoretical Psychology; The Interpretive Significance of Bertalanffy's Ideas for Understanding Hayek: Appreciating the Philosophical Implications of Hayek's   Theoretical Psychology; The Influence of Bertalanffy II: Hayek's Economics; Conclusion; Notes

Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

The Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) 34A, includes original research from preeminent scholars in the field. RHETM is one of the oldest and most respected publications in the field, and the Vol 34A is crucial for economists, methodologists, and historians of the social sciences.