ABSTRACT
This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science in Austria and Germany in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It deals with how the emergence of the new school (Austrian School) changed the focus of social science in the German speaking world, and how it prepared the introduction of an evolutionary perspective in economics, politics, and sociology. Based on (mostly hitherto unknown) primary evidence, this development is lively described in a series of encounters and decisions by each social scientists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
General Introduction
chapter |12 pages
Carl Menger as Journalist and Tutor of the Crown Prince
chapter |18 pages
Carl Menger's Grundsätze in the Making
chapter |13 pages
Origin of Böhm-Bawerk's Theory of Interest and Capital 1
chapter |15 pages
Anonymous History in Austrian Economic Thought
From Carl and Anton Menger to Friedrich von Wieser
chapter |12 pages
Alternative Equilibrium Vision in Austrian Economics
chapter |12 pages
Determinateness and indeterminateness in Schumpeter's Economic Sociology
The origin of social evolution
chapter |15 pages
Evolutionary Reading of Max Weber's Economic Sociology
A reappraisal of the “Marx–Weber problem”