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List of illustrations | p. xvi |
The author | p. xvii |
Acknowledgements | p. xix |
Foreword | p. xxi |
General introduction | p. 1 |
Opening the gates of Modernity in philosophical, economic and political German thought | p. 15 |
Introduction | p. 17 |
Philosophers put classical political economy on trial | p. 24 |
Breaking away from the theologians' views on providence | p. 27 |
Fichte and the criticism of 'liberal hazard' | p. 31 |
Hegel and the criticism of Fichtean grounds for a closed state | p. 42 |
Hegel and the basis of economic freedom | p. 50 |
Sources of German political economy as a building block of national identity | p. 56 |
Conceptual framework that British political economy met in Germany | p. 57 |
On Fichte again: his design of a national state for commercial activities from an economic standpoint fitting Germany | p. 60 |
On Hegel again: ambiguities in his understanding of the freedom of entrepreneurs | p. 70 |
'Nationalökonomie' List's definition of a national system of political economy | p. 75 |
Nonetheless an ode to 'odious capitalism'? | p. 86 |
Goethe's foresight of the future of mankind through production (on Faust, A Tragedy, Part II, Acts IV and V) | p. 87 |
Sources of political economy in traditional German Cameralism (Kameralismus and Kameralwissenschaften) | p. 99 |
State and business in their respective roles: the point of view of historians on German economic history | p. 107 |
The political economy of mankind and culture: Menschen- und Kultur- Volkswirtschaftslehre | p. 117 |
Introduction | p. 119 |
The national economics of Germany | p. 126 |
Historians and economists in early nineteenth-century Germany: towards a new matrix, its sources, methods, products and deadlocks | p. 127 |
The 'Younger Historical School': a needed innovative methodology to escape the deadlocks of Historicism and a long-time inherited goal of influence over economic policies | p. 138 |
The economics of state administration or the governance of 'administered economics' | p. 155 |
The emergence of the notion of 'state of law' | p. 156 |
The need for a science of administration within the context of an industrial economy and of a civil society | p. 163 |
Schmoller and Stein on 'social monarchy' | p. 173 |
Historicism seen as outdated institutionalism, or for whom the bell tolls | p. 178 |
Interpretations of Marx | p. 186 |
Marx and the incomplete criticism of classical political economy | p. 189 |
Marx on 'fair wages' (gerechter Lohn) | p. 198 |
The role of capital and the course of time | p. 203 |
Marx's scientific methodology and advocacy of the revolution | p. 209 |
Out of antiquity again and (re)reading Modernity: political economy reformulated by Carl Menger (1840-1921) based on new findings in the archives | p. 213 |
Introduction | p. 215 |
Aristotle as the ancient philosophical source of Menger's thinking | p. 223 |
Ancient economics and Menger as a reader of Aristotle: preliminary warnings on a debated issue | p. 224 |
A source of Menger's theory of value in Books V, VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics bearing on Justice and philia? | p. 227 |
Menger's 'methodological individualism' a paradoxical source of inspiration in his interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics | p. 239 |
A few more issues emanating from Aristotelianism in Menger: realism and induction, theory and praxis, economics and chrematistics | p. 247 |
British political and economic thought as the modern philosophical source of Menger's ideas | p. 254 |
Carl Menger and the British political philosophy tradition | p. 257 |
Classicism under attack: Ricardian views condemned by Menger | p. 266 |
The classical school and its logic: Menger about | p. 275 |
After classical thought: the heirs of Menger and the Anglo-Saxon world | p. 281 |
The origins of Austrian Marginalism | p. 286 |
Menger and some 'predecessors' Hans von Mangoldt, Hermann Heinrich Gossen | p. 287 |
Menger and some contemporaries: 'experimental psychologist' Wilhelm Wundt and 'co-founders of Marginalism' | p. 302 |
Menger and some later thinkers: Max Weber, Menger's son Karl Menger, disciples and followers, Enkelschüler | p. 311 |
General conclusion | p. 319 |
Notes | p. 327 |
Bibliography | p. 375 |
Index of names | p. 394 |
Index of subjects | p. 403 |
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