We’ve just posted a remarkable book: The Viennese School of Economics: A History of its Ideas, Proponents, and Institutions. The authors are Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler. Schulak (schulak@philosophische-praxis.at) is an entrepreneur serving as philosophical counselor in Vienna, Austria (www.philosophische-praxis.at). A university lecturer and author of six books, he is the director of the Department of Philosophy at the Siemens Academy of Life. Herbert Unterköfler (herbert.Unterkoefler@kornferry.com) is Senior client Partner/managing director at Korn/Ferry International, Vienna, Austria.
It is a serious contribution to the understanding of the history of ideas in the Austrian tradition. They provide a complete re-reading of the tradition, with new details about other Menger students, their theories, and their politics. They revise large parts of the history as it has come down to us from Mises, and provide a serious challenge to Mises’s account itself.
It is a lengthy account. It will be in print in the coming months once this draft (beta) version is indexed and fully stabilized. It is our expectation that this book will become part of the essential canon of Austrian literature and remain so for many years to come.
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What a fabulous addition to the understanding of legacy of Mengerian scholarship and the Viennese/Austrian tradition of methodological individualism and subjectivism. Just brilliant. Thank you for making it available.
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Idiotic question: why is the title using “Viennese School” instead of “Austrian School”?
Bump. I’d also like to know.
To differentiate from the Austrian “Austrians” in Vienna at the beginning and those who have expanded and blossomed around the globe.
Does anybody ever get fired out of the canon? If not, I don’t wanna read it.
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