Format:
1 online resource (441 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415423441
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9781134098606
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Series
Content:
The role of the German Historical School and of Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School) is appraised in this new book. Gilles Campagnolo has produced an impressive original work which makes use of rarely seen research by Carl Menger and as such this book will be of interest across several discplines, including history of economic thought, economic methodology, philosophy of science and the history of ideas
Note:
Intro -- Criticisms of Classical Political Economy Menger, Austrian economics and the German Historical School -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- The author -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- General introduction -- PART I Opening the gates of Modernity in philosophical, economic and political German thought -- Introduction -- 1 Philosophers put classical political economy on trial -- 1 Breaking away from the theologians' views on providence -- 2 Fichte and the criticism of 'liberal hazard' -- 3 Hegel and the criticism of Fichtean grounds for a closed state -- 4 Hegel and the basis of economic freedom -- 2 Sources of German political economy as a building block of national identity -- 1 Conceptual framework that British political economy met in Germany -- 2 On Fichte again: his design of a national state for commercial activities from an economic standpoint fitting Germany -- 3 On Hegel again: ambiguities in his understanding of the freedom of entrepreneurs -- 3 On Hegel again: ambiguities in his understanding of the freedom of entrepreneurs -- 4 'Nationalökonomie': List's definition of a national system of political economy -- 3 Nonetheless an ode to 'odious capitalism'? -- 1 Goethe's foresight of the future of mankind through production -- 2 Sources of political economy in traditional German Cameralism -- 3 State and business in their respective roles: the point of view of historians on German economic history -- PART II The political economy of mankind and culture: Menschen- und Kultur-Volkswirtschaftslehre -- Introduction -- 4 The national economics of Germany -- 1 Historians and economists in early nineteenth-century Germany: towards a new matrix, its sources, methods, products and deadlocks
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2 Menger and some contemporaries: 'experimental psychologist' -- 3 Menger and some later thinkers: -- General conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects
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2 The 'Younger Historical School': a needed innovative methodology to escape the deadlocks of Historicism and a long-time inherited goal of influence over economic policies -- 5 The economics of state administration or the governance of 'administered economics' -- 1 The emergence of the notion of 'state of law' -- 2 The need for a science of administration within the context of an industrial economy and of a civil society -- 3 Schmoller and Stein on 'social monarchy' -- 4 Historicism seen as outdated institutionalism, or for whom the bell tolls -- 6 Interpretations of Marx -- 1 Marx and the incomplete criticism of classical political economy -- 2 Marx on 'fair wages' -- 3 The role of capital and the course of time -- 4 Marx's scientific methodology and advocacy of the revolution -- PART III Out of antiquity again and (re)reading Modernity: political economy reformulated by Carl Menger (1840-1921) based on new findings in the archives -- Introduction -- 7 Aristotle as the ancient philosophical source of Menger's thinking -- 1 Ancient economics and Menger as a reader of Aristotle: preliminary warnings on a debated issue -- 2 A source of Menger's theory of value in Books V, VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics bearing on justice and philia? -- 3 Menger's 'methodological individualism': a paradoxical source of inspiration in his interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics -- 4 A few more issues emanating from Aristotelianism in Menger: realism and induction, theory and praxis, economics and chrematistics -- 8 British political and economic thought as the modern philosophical source of Menger's ideas -- 1 Carl Menger and the British political philosophy tradition -- 2 Classicism under attack -- 3 The classical school and its logic -- 4 After classical thought -- 9 The origins of Austrian Marginalism -- 1 Menger and some 'predecessors'
Additional Edition:
Print version Campagnolo, Gilles Criticisms of Classical Political Economy Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9780415423441
Language:
English
Keywords:
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