Research in the history of economic thought and methodology : including a symposium on Carl Menger at the centenary of his death / edited by Luca Fiorito, Scott Scheall and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fiorito, Luca, 1967- editor.

Scheall, Scott, editor.

Suprinyak, Carlos Eduardo, editor.

Series:

Research in the history of economic thought and methodology ; Volume 39.

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology ; Volume 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics.

Menger, Carl, 1840-1921.

Menger, Carl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]

Summary:

Volume 39B includes a symposium marking the centenary of Carl Menger's death in 1921. The symposium, edited by Reinhard Schumacher and Scott Scheall, features contributions from Sandra J. Peart, Günther Chaloupek, Erwin Dekker, and Sandye Gloria. The Volume also features general-research essays from Marina Uzunova and Alexander Linsbichler.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Series Editors Page

Editorial Board

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Volume Introduction

Part I: A Symposium on Carl Menger at the Centenary of his Death

Introduction

References

The "Improvement of Mankind": William Stanley Jevons and Carl Menger on Decision Making and Learning

Systematic Mistakes: The Importance of Time

Learning versus Remaking

Conclusion

Carl Menger's Different Concepts of the Value of Money - The Enigma of "The Inner Value of Money"

1. Menger's Theory of Money - A Short Summary

2. Outer Value

3. Inner Value

4. The Inconsistency

5. Economic Statistics

6. Later Generations of the Austrian School on Menger's Concepts of Money Value

6.1. Friedrich von Wieser

6.2. Joseph Schumpeter

6.3. Ludwig von Mises

6.4. F.A. Hayek

6.5. Alexander Mahr15,16

7. Concluding Remarks

The New Theory of Individual and Collective Needs in the Second Edition of Carl Menger's Principles of Economics

1. The New Opening Chapter: "The Theory of Needs"

2. The Second Edition and the Interwar Austrians

2.1. Theory of Needs

2.2. The Natural and the Social Sciences

2.3. Space for Subjectivism

3. Collective Needs and Collective Goods

The Modernity of Carl Menger: Austrian Economics and Complexity Economics

1. At the Ontological Level

2. At the Epistemological Level

3. At the Methodological Level

4. Core Concepts

(1) Whose Coherence is Deep Indeed:

(2) Whose Potentialities are Promising:

(3) Whose Modernity Is of No Doubt:

Part II: Essays

Penrose and the Indifferent Crowd

The Measurement of Voting Power

An Objective Theory of Crowd Behaviour.

The Indifferent Crowd

The Effect of the Size of the Crowd

Hierarchical Control

Rationalities and Their Limits: Reconstructing Neurath's and Mises's Prerequisites in the Early Socialist Calculation Debates

1. Introduction: Idiosyncratic Rationalities

2. Contextualizing Otto Neurath and Ludwig Mises

2.1. Two Poles of Viennese Late Enlightenment

2.2. The Early Socialist Calculation Debates

3. Neurath on Rationality

3.1. The Lost Wanderers: A Critique of Pseudorationalism

3.2. Applying Neurathian Rationality

4. Mises on Rationality

4.1. Social Rationalism

4.2. Rationality of Individual Action

4.3. Irrationality of Socialism - A Contradiction?

4.4. Solution (I): Economic Rationality as Algorithmic Monetary Maximization?

4.5. Solution (II): Monetary Calculation as a Restricted, Yet Crucial Mental Tool

5. More than Obvious Resemblances and Compatibilities

5.1. Cautionary Enlightenment: the Limits of Rationality

5.2. Enlightening Knowledge for Whom? Individual Rationality and Social Rationality

5.3. Welfarism and the View from Nowhere ("Neurath's Problem")

5.4. Contractarianism and the Lack of Evaluative Standards ("Mises's Problem")

6. Conclusion and Outlook

References.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80071-144-1

OCLC:

1263870508