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Austrian School of Economics

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A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions
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The Austrian School is in the news as never before. It is discussed on business pages, academic journals, and speeches by public figures. At long last, there is a brilliant and engaging guide to the history, ideas, and institutions of the Austrian School of economics. It is written by two Austrian intellectuals who have gone to the sources themselves to provide a completely new look at the tradition and what it means for the future. This is the first such authoritative book that has appeared on this topic.

The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions, by Eugen Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler appeared first in German. It has been a sensation: the first and most authoritative source on this hot topic. This new English translation by Arlene Oost-Zinner, complete with a vast scholarly apparatus of citations and bibliographies, is academic at its core but also easy-to-read, entertaining, and fascinating on every page.

They set the stage with a discussion of the culture of 19th century Vienna, and the striking innovation that came with Carl Menger’s subjective theory of value. They discuss the titanic struggle over method that took place between the Viennese Mengerians and the German Historical School.

Next comes a thrilling account of the second generation of Austrians, their politics, their theories, their personal splits, their idiosyncrasies, their debates. The cast of characters here is far larger than most people in the English-speaking world have known. The authors operate as tour guides to this world that is mostly unknown to Americans due to the remoteness of time and the differences in language.

The stories they tell of Mises in Vienna, as well as Hayek and Schumpeter, include anecdotes never known before. It is particularly interesting for Americans to read because we have mostly had to understand the history of the Austrian School based on a far more limited set of literary resources.

What emerges from the account here is the singular contribution that Mises himself made in shaping the modern Austrian School into what it is today. Here we have the highest tribute to the power of ideas. Mises left his mark in a decisive way that is right now driving political and economic change the world over.

If you are like many people, you have been curious about the Austrian School but didn’t know where to turn to discover more about it. This book is the one that makes sense of it all!


Preface to the English Edition

Preface

The Austrian School in Brief

  1. Vienna in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  2. Economics as an Academic Discipline
  3. The Discovery of the Self: The Theory of Subjective Value
  4. The Emergence of the Austrian School in the Methodenstreit
  5. Carl Menger: Founder of the Austrian School
  6. Time is Money: The Austrian theory of Capital and Interest
  7. Friedrich von Wieser: From Economist to Social Scientist
  8. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: Economist, Minister, Aristocrat
  9. Emil Sax: The Recluse from Voloska
  10. Further Students of Menger and Other Supporters
  11. Money Makes the World Go Round: The Monetary theory of the Business Cycle
  12. Joseph A. Schumpeter: Maverick and Enigma
  13. Schumpeter’s theory of Economic Development
  14. The Austrian School’s Critique of Marxism
  15. The Consequences of War: The Imminent Collapse
  16. Between the Wars: From Re-formation to Exodus
  17. Ludwig von Mises: The Logician of Freedom
  18. Friedrich August von Hayek: Grand Seigneur on the Fence
  19. Other Members of the Younger Austrian School
  20. Praxeology: A New Start from Ludwig von Mises
  21. Friedrich August von Hayek’s Model of Society and His Theory of Cultural Evolution
  22. The Entrepreneur
  23. The Rejected Legacy: Austria and the Austrian School After
  24. The Renaissance of the old ‘Viennese’ School: The New Austrian School of Economics

Abbreviations

References Index

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by Stephan Kinsella
on 3/15/2011
from Houston
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When this book was announced a few weeks ago, I ordered the paper copy right away, and then also downloaded the PDF onto my iPad. I devoured it in just few days–reading it partly in paper, partly on iPad. This is an amazing, marvelous book. It is hard to believe it is translated, it is written so well and flows so smoothly. For anyone interested in Austrian economics this book is bound to delight and inform. It provides a fascinating overview of the origins of the school, and helps put current developments into perspective. What an unexpected contribution to the Austrian literature. I highly, highly recommend this wonderful book.
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ISBN 9781610161343
Binding PB
Page Length 261
Publication Date 03/01/2011
Publisher LvMI
Dimensions 6x9

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