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Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der Politischen
1883
by
Menger
Carl Menger
Political Economy
Economic History
Historical School
Methodology
Epistemology
Adam Smith
Classical Economics
Aristotle
Karl Knies
Volkswirtschaft
Wilhelm Roscher
Austrian School
Auguste Comte
John Stuart Mill
Price Theory
Supply and Demand
Thomas Hobbes
Capitalism
Collectivism
Economic Development
Anthropology
Economic Policy
John Law
Plato
Causality
Albert Schaffle
Methodological Individualism
Wages
Herbert Spencer
Monetary Theory
Spontaneous Order
Division of Labor
Ground Rent
Interest Rates
Physiocracy
Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi
Edmund Burke
Rationality
Friedrich List
Empiricism
Bruno Hildebrand
Gustav Schmoller
Interventionism
Catallactics
Adolf Wagner
Jean-Baptiste Say
Public Finance
Lorenz von Stein
Socialism
Capital Goods
Determinism
Economic Efficiency
Political Philosophy
Property Rights
Table of Contents · 54 segments
1
Title Page
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2
Preface: Methodological Confusion in Political Economy
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3
Preface: Aim of the Work and Limits of Methodology
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4
Preface: Why Methodological Critique Is Urgent in Germany
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5
Preface: Critique of German Reform Paths in Economics
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6
Preface: Polemic, Universal Reform, and German Scholarship
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7
Table of Contents
essay
8
Book I, Chapter 1: Viewpoints of Research on the National Economy
chapter
9
Book I, Chapter 2: Errors from Misunderstanding the Formal Nature of Theoretical Economics
chapter
10
Book I, Chapter 3: Theoretical Economics Remains a Theoretical Science
chapter
11
Book I, Chapter 4: Exact and Realistic-Empirical Research
chapter
12
Book I, Chapter 5: Relation between Exact and Realistic-Empirical Research
chapter
13
Book I, Chapter 6: Economics and the Whole Social and State Development of Peoples
chapter
14
Book I, Chapter 7: The Dogma of Self-Interest in Theoretical Economics
chapter
15
Book I, Chapter 8: The Charge of Atomism in Theoretical Economics
chapter
16
Book II Introduction: The Historical Viewpoint in Political Economy
chapter
17
Book II, Chapter 1, §1: Development of Economic Phenomena
chapter
18
Book II, Chapter 1, §2: Development and Realistic-Empirical Theory
chapter
19
Book II, Chapter 1, §3: Historical Method and Overgeneralization
chapter
20
Book II, Chapter 1, §4: Development and Exact Theory
chapter
21
Book II, Chapter 2: Pseudo-Historical Directions in Theoretical Economics
chapter
22
Book II, Chapter 3: Historical Viewpoint in Practical Economic Sciences
chapter
23
Book III, Chapter 1, §1: Analogy between Social Phenomena and Natural Organisms
chapter
24
Book III, Chapter 1, §2: Limits of the Organic Analogy
chapter
25
Book III, Chapter 1, §3: Methodological Consequences of the Incomplete Organic Analogy
chapter
26
Limits of the Organic Analogy in Social Science
theoretical
27
Exact and Empirical-Realistic Understanding of Social Organisms
theoretical
28
Research Problems Arising from the Organic View of Social Phenomena
theoretical
29
Earlier Attempts to Explain Organically Arising Social Phenomena
theoretical
30
Exact Explanation of the Origin of Money
theoretical
31
Exact Explanation of Settlements, States, and Other Social Institutions
theoretical
32
Organic Origins as Unintended Results of Individual Aims
theoretical
33
Historical Treatment of Political Economy and Its Earlier Roots
chapter
34
Historical Use of History and Relativity of Political Institutions
chapter
35
Misreading of the Historical School of Law by German Historical Economists
chapter
36
Origins in German Historical-Political Scholarship
chapter
37
Gervinus and the Turn to One-Sided Historicism
chapter
38
Roscher’s Historical Method and Menger’s Critique
chapter
39
Hildebrand’s Developmental Historical Economics
chapter
40
Knies and the Epistemology of the Historical School
chapter
41
Appendix I: The Nature of the National Economy
theoretical
42
Appendix II: Theoretical Economics and Its Laws
theoretical
43
Appendix II Continuation: German Definitions of Political Economy and the Nature of Social Laws
theoretical
44
Appendix III: Practical Economic Sciences, Practice, and Theoretical Economics
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45
Appendix IV: Terminology and Classification of Economic Sciences
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46
Historical and Theoretical Economic Sciences in the Classification of Economics
theoretical
47
Appendix IV Continued: Practical Economic Sciences and Economics under Socialism
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48
Appendix V: Exact Laws in Social and Natural Science
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49
Appendix VI: Determination of the Starting Point and End of Human Economy
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50
Appendix VII: Aristotle on the Origin of the State
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51
Appendix VIII: Organic Origin of Law and Its Exact Interpretation
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52
Appendix IX: The Ethical Direction in Political Economy
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53
Corrections
footnotes
54
Name Index
bibliography