An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
Title | An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Newton Rothbard |
Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Total Pages | 1120 |
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Genre | Austrian school of economics |
ISBN | 1610164776 |
Economic Point of View
Title | Economic Point of View PDF eBook |
Author | Israel M. Kirzner |
Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Economics |
ISBN | 161016282X |
Economic Thought Before Adam Smith
Title | Economic Thought Before Adam Smith PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Rothbard |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 572 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781480128033 |
LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com Here is the last masterpiece by Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995), the result of a lifetime of research and his crowning achievement.This volume is the most extensive treatment from a modern Austrian perspective of the history of economic thought up to Adam Smith and, as such, takes into account the profound influences of religious, social, and political thought upon economics.Murray Rothbard traces economic ideas from ancient sources and shows that laissez-faire liberalism and economic thought itself began with the scholastics and early Roman and canon law. The scholastics, he argues, established and developed the subjective utility and scarcity theory of value, as well as the theory that prices, or the value of money, depend on its supply and demand.The Continental, or "pre-Austrian" tradition, was destroyed, rather than developed, by Adam Smith whose strong Calvinist tendencies toward glorifying labor, toil, and thrift is contrasted with emphasis in scholastic economic thought towards labor in the service of consumption.Tracing economic thought from the Greeks to the Scottish enlightenment, this book is notable for its inclusion of all of the important figures in each school of thought with their theories assessed in historical context.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought: Economic thought before Adam Smith
Title | An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought: Economic thought before Adam Smith PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Newton Rothbard |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 584 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
This is the first extensive treatment from a modern Austrian perspective of the history of economic thought up to Adam Smith and as such takes into account the profound influence of religious, social and political thought upon economics. In Economic Thought before Adam Smith, Murray Rothbard contends that laissez-faire liberalism and economic thought itself began with the Catholic scholastics and early Roman and canon law, rather than with Adam Smith. The scholastics, he argues, established and developed the subjective utility and scarcity theory of value, as well as the theory that prices, or the value of money, depend on its supply and demand. This continental, or 'pre-Austrian' tradition, was destroyed, rather than developed, by Adam Smith whose strong Calvinist tendencies towards glorifying labour, toil and thrift is contrasted with the emphasis in Scholastic economic thought towards labour in the service of consumption. Tracing economic thought from the Greeks to the Scottish Enlightenment, this book is notable for its inclusion of all the important figures in each school of thought with their theories assessed in historical context. Classical Economics, the second volume of Professor Rothbard's history of economic thought from an Austrian perspective, is also available.
Austrian and German Economic Thought
Title | Austrian and German Economic Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Kiichiro Yagi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136824618 |
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.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
Title | An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Newton Rothbard |
Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Total Pages | 1120 |
Release | |
Genre | Austrian school of economics |
ISBN | 1610164776 |
An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
Title | An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Ludwig von Mises |
Publisher | VM eBooks |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2016-11-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Mortal man does not know how the universe and all that it contains may appear to a superhuman intelligence. Perhaps such an exalted mind is in a position to elaborate a coherent and comprehensive monistic interpretation of all phenomena. Man—up to now, at least—has always gone lamentably amiss in his attempts to bridge the gulf that he sees yawning between mind and matter, between the rider and the horse, between the mason and the stone. It would be preposterous to view this failure as a sufficient demonstration of the soundness of a dualistic philosophy. All that we can infer from it is that science—at least for the time being—must adopt a dualistic approach, less as a philosophical explanation than as a methodological device. Methodological dualism refrains from any proposition concerning essences and metaphysical constructs. It merely takes into account the fact that we do not know how external events—physical, chemical, and physiological—affect human thoughts, ideas, and judgments of value. This ignorance splits the realm of knowledge into two separate fields, the realm of external events, commonly called nature, and the realm of human thought and action. Older ages looked upon the issue from a moral or religious point of view. Materialist monism was rejected as incompatible with the Christian dualism of the Creator and the creation, and of the immortal soul and the mortal body. Determinism was rejected as incompatible with the fundamental principles of morality as well as with the penal code. Most of what was advanced in these controversies to support the respective dogmas was unessential and is irrelevant from the methodological point of view of our day. The determinists did little more than repeat their thesis again and again, without trying to substantiate it. The indeterminists denied their adversaries’ statements but were unable to strike at their weak points. The long debates were not very helpful.