The History of Economics: A Course for Students and Teachers by Backhouse E. Roger & Tribe Keith
Author:Backhouse E. Roger & Tribe Keith [Roger, Backhouse E. & Keith, Tribe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Agenda Publishing
Published: 2019-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
5. Questions for discussion
Why was the reception of the âMarginal Revolutionâ delayed from the 1870s to the 1880s/1890s?
Was the âAustrian economicsâ of Menger and Böhm-Bawerk abstract and unhistorical?
What was Léon Walrasâs purpose in creating a mathematical system of general equilibrium?
1.
Today Volkswirtschaftslehre (the economics of peoples) is the generic term for economics, but as is explained below it was sometimes in the nineteenth century used synonymously with Nationalökonomie, âthe economy of the nationâ or ânational economicsâ, the two terms having German and Graeco-Latin roots, respectively.
2.
Carl Menger, Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre (Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1871), ix.
3.
Ibid., 2 fn.* (see lecture 6 for discussion of Jakob).
4.
Ibid., 93.
5.
Ibid., 94.
6.
Ibid., 175.
7.
Carl Menger, Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften, und der Politischen Oekonomie insbesondere (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1883), 8â9.
8.
See Keith Tribe, Strategies of Economic Order: German Economic Discourse 1750â1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 78ff.
9.
See Simon J. Cook and Keith Tribe, âHistorical Economicsâ, in Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, volume II, Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz D. Kurz (eds) (Cheltenham: Elgar, 2016), 295â312.
10.
âRights and Relationships from the Perspective of an Economic Theory of Goodsâ.
11.
And to whom, in fact, Carl Menger had dedicated his Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre.
12.
Macvane, professor of political economy at Harvard University, had published an introductory textbook in political economy; Giddings, lecturer in political science at Bryn Mawr College, had published a book on the theory of capital.
13.
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Rechte und Verhältnisse vom Standpunkte der volkswirthschaftlichen Güterlehre (Innsbruck: Verlag der Wagnerâschen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1881), 18.
14.
Ibid., 40.
15.
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzins-Theorieen (Kapital und Kapitalzins Erste Abtheilung) (Innsbruck: Verlag der Wagnerâschen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1884).
16.
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, âThe Austrian Economistsâ, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1:3 (1891), 365.
17.
William Jaffé (ed.), Correspondence of Léon Walras and Related Papers, three volumes (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1965).
18.
Wesley C. Mitchell, âWieserâs Theory of Social Economicsâ, Political Science Quarterly 32 (1917), 95â118.
19.
Nicholas Ostler, The Last Lingua Franca (London: Penguin, 2011), 22.
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