Campagnolo Criticisms of Classical Political Economy

Menger, Austrian Economics and the German Historical School
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-134-09859-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

The role of the German Historical School and of Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School) is appraised in this new book. This important period of the history of economics is vital to understand how the discipline developed over the next half-century. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campagnolo, Gilles

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Introduction. Part 1: Classical Political Economy on Trial in Germany 1. Philosophers Put Classical Political Economy on Trial 2. Sources of German Political Economy as a Building-Block of National Identity 3. Nonetheless an Ode to Odious Capitalism? Part 2: The Political Economy of "Menschen" and "Kultur" 4. The Historical Economists of Germany 5. The Economics of State Administration and Government-Administered Economics 6. A Place for Marx Part 3: Out of Antiquity Again and (re-)Reading Modernity 7. Ancient Classical Philosophy as One Source of Menger’s Thought 8. The Modern Philosophical Source of Menger’s Thought 9. The Origins of Austrian Marginalism Conclusion Appendix A: The Menger Archives

Über Autor(innen)

Gilles Campagnolo was previously Associate Research Professor at Sorbonne University before entering the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Aix-en-Provence, France.