Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …

The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the … first principles as the basis for deductivist approaches to economics and the widespread belief that economics is an … attempts to define economics and its method from John Stuart Mill's economics as the science of wealth through Lionel Robbins …

undeservedly seldom (section 5); finally, the connector to other contemporaneous paradigms of economics and economic sociology … explicitly built into the analysis. While the project is primarily conducted as a history of economics endeavor, revisiting … development of the research program of Austrian economics, as well as at a better understanding of the increasing politico …

Little is known about the relationship between Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of Economics and one of the … development of mathematical economics. The present paper begins to fill this gap in the literature. …

Max Weber's relationship to economics in general and to the Austrian School in particular has received more attention … between Weber and Wieser. Their projects of "Social Economics" are studied comparatively, with a special focus on the concepts … important insights for the development of "Social Economics" and of the early economics of the Austrian School. Second, this …