August 02, 2023

Scott Scheall - How Are Carl and Karl Menger Important For Liberalism?

1 hour 3 minutes

Alex speaks with Scott Scheall about Carl and Karl Menger and their influence on the history of economics, liberal theory, and - yes - mathematics.

Further Reading:

"Karl Menger as Son of Carl Menger" - Scott Scheall & Reinhard Schumacher

https://philarchive.org/rec/SCHKMA-4

Econlib Biography of elder Menger:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Menger.html

1871. Principles of Economics. Translated by J. Dingwall and B. F. Hoselitz, with an introduction by Friedrich A. Hayek. New York: New York University Press, 1981.

1892. “On the Origin of Money.” Economic Journal 2 (June): 239–255.

“Mises Introduces the Austrian School,” http://mises.org/daily/3512 from Ludwig von Mises, Memoirs.

Joseph T. Salerno, “Biography of Carl Menger: The Founder of the Austrian School (1840-1921),” http://mises.org/about/3239

Biography of Karl Menger

https://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/kmenger.htm

Including the following Major Works:

Dimensiontheorie, 1928

"On Intuitionism", 1930, Blatter der deutschen Pilosophy

Kurventheorie, 1932

"The New Logic", 1933, in Krise und Neuaufbau in den Exackten Wissenschaften

Moral Wille und Weltgestaltung, 1934.

"The Role of Uncertainty in Economics", 1934, ZfN

"Remarks on the Law of Diminishing Returns: A study in meta-economics", 1936, ZfN

"The Logic of Laws of Return: A study in meta-economics", 1954, in Morgenstern, editor, Economic Activity Analysis.

"Austrian Marginalism and Mathematical Economics", 1973, in Hicks and Weber, editors, Carl Menger and the Austrian School of Economics

Morality, decision, and social organization : toward a logic of ethics, 1974.

Selected Papers in Logic and Foundations, Didactics, Economics, 1979.

Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium, 1994. (ed. L. Golland, B. McGuinness and A. Sklar) [prev]

"On the direction of ideas and the principal tendencies of the Vienna Mathematical Colloqium", 1998, in E. Dierker & K. Sigismund, editors, Karl Menger Ergebnisse eines Mathematischen Kolloquiums

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