Siegmund Feilbogen · 1891
Feilbogen reviews the first installment of the second edition of F. W. Neurath’s economics textbook, published in 1889. His favorable assessment is provisional: the extent of revision suggests a substantially new work, but the installment cannot establish the character of the completed edition.
The review emphasizes methodological clarification and pedagogical usefulness. Feilbogen singles out the definition of induction, the treatment of inner intuition as a source of knowledge, and the identification of mistaken applications of the law of large numbers. Discussion of historical, ethical, and mathematical economics likewise places the foundations of economic knowledge at the center of his appraisal.
These discussions are valued as material for lectures and as prompts to further inquiry. Without reconstructing their arguments at length or systematically adjudicating between competing approaches, Feilbogen presents the revised textbook as a promising contribution to the teaching and methodological reflection of economics.
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