Including a symposium on Austrian economics in the Postwar Era
edited by Scott Scheall
Front Cover -- Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: The Postwar Austrian Diaspora - A Symposium on Austrian Economics in the Wake of World War II -- Introduction to a Symposium on Austrian Economics in the Immediate Postwar Period -- The Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft (Austrian Economic Association) in the Interwar Period and beyond -- Introduction -- Some Stories Told about the NOeG -- The Pre-History of the NOeG: The Gesellschaft Der Österreichischen Volkswirte -- The Foundation of the NOeG 1918 and Its Inactivity through the 1920s -- The Relaunch in 1927 -- 1927-1938: Years of High Theory? -- After the Anschluss, 1938-1945 -- The Restoration after 1945 -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Archival Sources -- Appendix -- The Moral Scholar and the A-Moral Scientist: The Responsibility of the Social Scientist in Austrian Economics before and after the migration -- The Responsibility of the Scholar: From Menger to Hayek -- Wertfreiheit, Value-Relevance, and Responsibility: The Moral Scholar -- Economics as Technique, the Economist as Technocrat -- Austrian Economics as an Alternative Technique? Wertfreiheit Misunderstood -- Alternate Currents within the Austrian Revival -- Concluding Remarks: Responsibility and Institutions -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- The Nature of the Market in Mises and Weber -- Introduction -- The Nature of the Market in Human Action -- The Market as a Social System -- Consumer Sovereignty and Market Perception -- The Nature of the Market in Max Weber -- The Market as a Pure System of Purely Rational Action -- Social Opposition to the Market Community -- Mises and Weber on the Market: Conceptual Similarities -- The Nature of the Market.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed September 1, 2016).