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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grassl, Wolfgang.

Smith, Barry, 1952-

Series:

Routledge revivals.

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austrian school of economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

First published in 1986 by Croom Helm Limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-82355-7

1-136-82356-5

1-283-24198-6

9786613241986

0-203-83061-X

9780203830611

OCLC:

695933504