Philosophy of Austrian economics - Extended cut

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Carl Menger's Principles of Economics, published in 1871, is usually regarded as the founding document of the Austrian School of economics. Many of the School's prominent representatives, including Friedrich Wieser, Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, Ludwig Mises, Hans Mayer, Friedrich August Hayek, Fritz Machlup, Oskar Morgenstern, and Gottfried Haberler, as well as Israel Kirzner, Ludwig Lachmann, Murray Rothbard, Don Lavoie, and Peter Boettke, advanced and modified Menger's research program in sometimes conflicting ways. Yet, some characteristics of the Austrian School remain (nearly) consensual from its foundation through to contemporary neo-Austrian economists. In eight sections, we will briefly discuss some of the philosophical and methodological characteristics of Austrian economics: Austrian action theory and interpretative understanding, a relatively thoroughgoing subjectivism, methodological individualism, ontological individualism, apriorism, essentialism, an often overstated rejection of formal methods, and alertness to economic semantics.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CHOPE Working Paper ; No. 2021-24

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; History of Economic Thought: Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Wicksellian) ; History of Economic Thought since 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School ; Economic Methodology: General ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Austrian ; Methodological Issues: General
• Subject: Austrian economics ; methodology ; subjectivism ; individualism ; apriorism ; praxeology ; essentialism ; formal methods ; economic semantics

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Linsbichler, Alexander
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE)
• (where): Durham, NC
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/248440
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET