Criticisms of Classical Political Economy : Menger, Austrian Economics and the German Historical School

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Criticisms of Classical Political Economy Menger, Austrian economics and the German Historical School; Copyright; Contents; 3 On Hegel again: ambiguities in his understanding of the freedom of entrepreneurs; List of illustrations; The author; Acknowledgements; Foreword; General introduction; PART I Opening the gates of Modernity in philosophical, economic and political German thought; Introduction; 1 Philosophers put classical political economy on trial; 1 Breaking away from the theologians' views on providence; 2 Fichte and the criticism of 'liberal hazard'

3 Hegel and the criticism of Fichtean grounds for a closed state4 Hegel and the basis of economic freedom; 2 Sources of German political economy as a building block of national identity; 1 Conceptual framework that British political economy met in Germany; 2 On Fichte again: his design of a national state for commercial activities from an economic standpoint fitting Germany; 3 On Hegel again: ambiguities in his understanding of the freedom of entrepreneurs; 4 'Nationalökonomie': List's definition of a national system of political economy; 3 Nonetheless an ode to 'odious capitalism'?

1 Goethe's foresight of the future of mankind through production2 Sources of political economy in traditional German Cameralism; 3 State and business in their respective roles: the point of view of historians on German economic history; PART II The political economy of mankind and culture: Menschen- und Kultur-Volkswirtschaftslehre; Introduction; 4 The national economics of Germany; 1 Historians and economists in early nineteenth-century Germany: towards a new matrix, its sources, methods, products and deadlocks

2 The 'Younger Historical School': a needed innovative methodology to escape the deadlocks of Historicism and a long-time inherited goal of influence over economic policies5 The economics of state administration or the governance of 'administered economics'; 1 The emergence of the notion of 'state of law'; 2 The need for a science of administration within the context of an industrial economy and of a civil society; 3 Schmoller and Stein on 'social monarchy'; 4 Historicism seen as outdated institutionalism, or for whom the bell tolls; 6 Interpretations of Marx

1 Marx and the incomplete criticism of classical political economy2 Marx on 'fair wages'; 3 The role of capital and the course of time; 4 Marx's scientific methodology and advocacy of the revolution; PART III Out of antiquity again and (re)reading Modernity: political economy reformulated by Carl Menger (1840-1921) based on new findings in the archives; Introduction; 7 Aristotle as the ancient philosophical source of Menger's thinking; 1 Ancient economics and Menger as a reader of Aristotle: preliminary warnings on a debated issue

2 A source of Menger's theory of value in Books V, VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics bearing on justice and philia?

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