The archive.

Carl Menger, Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre — Summary Carl Menger’s Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre (1871) is the “first, general part” of a projected reconstruction of economics...

Carl Menger, Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der Politischen Oekonomie insbesondere (1883) Menger’s Untersuchungen is a methodological monograph: its scope is the epistemological status of th...

Carl Menger, Irrthümer des Historismus in der Deutschen Nationalökonomie (1884) Menger’s Irrthümer continues the methodological dispute opened by his Untersuchungen über die Methode and is a central document of the Metho...

Carl Menger, “Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie” (1887) Menger’s essay is formally a review of the second, enlarged edition of Gustav Schönberg’s collective Handbuch der politischen Oekonomie, but it functions as a co...

Carl Menger, Zur Theorie des Kapitals (1888) This separately printed journal essay is a theoretical intervention into the concept of capital in political economy...

Carl Menger, “Die Kaufkraft des Guldens österreichischer Währung” (1889) This is a single-author newspaper essay: a public monetary-policy intervention by Carl Menger on the Austrian gulden after the suspension of privat...

Carl Menger, “Friedrich List” (1889) This file is a single commemorative newspaper essay: Menger writes on the centenary of Friedrich List’s birth, joining biography, intellectual history, and economic-political judgment...

Carl Menger, Grundzüge einer Klassifikation der Wirtschaftswissenschaften (1889) Menger’s essay is a methodological intervention in the aftermath of the Methodenstreit...

This is a two-part political-economic newspaper essay. Menger uses the neglected German centenary of Adam Smith’s death to challenge the reigning German “social-political” interpretation of classical economics...

Carl Menger, “Lorenz von Stein + 23. September 1890” (1891) Genre and scope: this is a single-author academic necrology and intellectual appraisal...

Carl Menger, “Aussagen vor der Währungs-Enquête-Kommission” (1892) Menger’s testimony before the Austro-Hungarian Currency Inquiry Commission is a practical monetary memorandum in spoken form...

Carl Menger, Der Übergang zur Goldwährung (1892) Menger’s 1892 pamphlet treats the Austrian-Hungarian move to gold not as a merely technical coinage reform, but as a problem of value, contracts, and distribution...