This book analyzes both the consistent and changing elements in the
Austrian School of Economics since its foundation in the late 19th Century up to the
offspring's of this School at the end of World War II. It investigates the dynamic
metamorphosis of the school, mainly with reference to its contact with representatives of
history of economic thought.
By outlining the various phases of transition, the contributors to this volume provide new
perspectives and fruitful contributions of the Austrian School to the evolution of
economics from an international perspective. The book investigates and celebrates the work
of leading economists, from Carl Menger to Friedrich Hayek
This book is essential reading for all interested in the history of economic thought, as
well as in the methodology of economics.
HARALD HAGEMANN is at University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart,
Germany.
TAMOTSU NISHIZAWA is at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
YUKIHIRO IKEDA Keio is at University, Tokyo, Japan.
Table of Contents
PART I: CARL MENGER: TOWARDS A NEW IMAGE OF THE FOUNDER
Carl Menger's Liberalism Revisited; Y.Ikeda
Carl Menger after 1871: His Quest for the Reality of 'Economic Man';
K.Yagi
PART II: LIBERAL ASPECTS OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL: MAX WEBER AND LUJO BRENTANO
Discoursing Freedom: Weber's Project; J.Kobayashi
Max Weber and the 'New Economics"; K.Tribe
The Historical School and the Making of Economic Science in Japan;
T.Nishizawa
PART III: SOME METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
The Transition from Menger to Wieser; R.Arena
From Menger to Polanyi: Toward a Substantive Economic Theory; M.Cangiani
A Note on Carl Menger's Problem Situation; K.Milford
PART IV: DISSEMINATION OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
The Austrian School in the Interwar Period; H.Hagemann
Involvement of Austrian émigré Economists in American; C.Nakayama
PART V: TRANSITION OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL
On Menger, Hayek and on the Concept of 'Verstehen'; K.Leube
Theory of Knowledge and the Idea of Evolution; S.Egashira
The Transformation of Hayek in the 1930s; M.Nishibe
Methodenstreit and Thereafter; T.Hashimoto
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