Problems of Economics and Sociology: (Untersuchungen Uber Die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der Politischen Oekonomie Insbesondere) by Louis Schneider, Francis J. Nock, Carl Menger

Problems of Economics and Sociology: (Untersuchungen Uber Die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der Politischen Oekonomie Insbesondere)

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CARL MENGER

PROBLEMS
OF ECONOMICS
AND SOCIOLOGY

(Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der Politischen Oekonomie insbesondere)

EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY LOUIS SCHNEIDER
TRANSLATED BY FRANCIS J. NOCK

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS URBANA 1963

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Publication Information: Book Title: Problems of Economics and Sociology: (Untersuchungen Uber Die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der Politischen Oekonomie Insbesondere). Contributors: Louis Schneider - editor, Francis J. Nock - transltr, Carl Menger - author. Publisher: University of Illinois Press. Place of Publication: Urbana, IL. Publication Year: 1963. Page Number: iii.

Title Page

Translator's Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction

Preface

Book One: Economics as a Theoretical Science and Its Relationship to the Historical and Practical Economic Sciences

Chapter 1: The Various Aspects of Research In the Field of National Economy

Chapter 2: The Errors Which Result from the Failure to Recognize The Formal Nature of Theoretical Economics

Chapter 3: The Special Nature of Theoretical Knowledge In the Field of Economy Does Not Invalidate The Character of Economics as a Theoretical Science

Chapter 4: The Two Basic Orientations of Theoretical Research In General and of That in the Field Of Economy in Particular

Chapter 5: The Relationship of the Exact Orientation Of Research in the Field of the Social Sciences To the Realistic-Empirical Orientation

Chapter 6: The Theory That Economic Phenomena Are to Be Treated Only in Connection with the Total Social And Political Development of Nations

Chapter 7: The Dogma of Self-Interest in Theoretical Economics And Its Position in Relation to the Theoretical Problems Of the Latter

Chapter 8: The Charge of "Atomism" in Theoretical Economics

Book Two: The Historical Point of View in Economic Research

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Historical Point of View in Theoretical Economics

Chapter 2: The Pseudo-Historical Orientations Of Research in Theoretical Economics

Chapter 3: The Historical Point of View in the Practical Sciences of Economy

Book Three: The Organic Understanding of Social Phenomena

Chapter 1: The Analogy Between Social Phenomena And Natural Organisms: Its Limits, and The Methodological Points of View For Social Research Resulting Therefrom

Chapter 2: The Theoretical Understanding of Those Social Phe Nomena Which Are Not a Product of Agreement Or Of Positive Legislation, but Are Unintended Results Of Historical Development

Book Four: The Development of the Idea of a Historical Treatment of Political Economy

Chapter 1: That the Basic Notions of the Historical School Of German Economists Have Long Been Known In Political Science

Chapter 2: The Historical School of German Economists Has Failed to Recognize the Decisive Reform Thought Of The Historical School of Jurists and Only Through Mis Understanding Considers Itself a Historical School In The Sense of the Latter

Chapter 3: The Origin and Development of the Historical School Of German Economists

Appendix I The Nature of National Economy

Appendix II: The Concepts of Theoretical Economics And the Nature of Its Laws

Appendix III: The Relationship of the Practical Sciences Of National Economy to Economic Practice And to Theoretical Economics

Appendix IV: The Terminology and the Classification Of the Economic Sciences

Appendix V: In the Realm of Human Phenomena Exact Laws (so-Called "Laws of Nature") Can Be Established Under the Same Formal Presuppositions as in The Realm of Natural Phenomena

Appendix VI: The Starting Point and the Goal of All Human Economy Are Strictly Determined

Appendix VII: The Opinion Ascribed to Aristotle That the State Is an Original Phenomenon Given Simultaneously With the Existence of Man

Appendix VIII: The "Organic" Origin of Law and the Exact Understanding Thereof

Appendix IX: The So-Called Ethical Orientation Of Political Economy

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