Menger and Bohm Bawerk Murray N Rothbard英文文献.pdfVIP

Menger and Böhm-Bawerk Murray N. Rothbard The fourth in a series of six lectures on The History of Economic Thought. Transcribed and Donated – Thomas Topp 2 Rothbard: —got the Austrian family tree up there. The founder of Austrian economics is Karl Menger, 1840– 1921. The generally accepted position on the Austrian school was that, of course, Menger was the founder. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was the most important student. Friedrich von Wieser— Im putting him to the side, was the brother-in-law of von Böhm- Bawerk—contributed a little bit, but not a great deal. Then, Mises, of course, was the great successor to Böhm-Bawerk. The story has been sort of changed and revised in recent years. Revisionism can either be good or bad; it’s never indifferent. You’re either correcting the historical errors of the past, or else you’re adding errors to the previously accepted truth. What’s been happening recently— I’ll get back to this in a minute. What’s been happening in the last ten years or so is an explosion of the Menger study—which is good, it’s great stuff. One thing Menger didn’t like very much—he wrote his great Principles of Economics in 1871. It was supposed to be volume one of a mighty [unintelligible], the rest of which never got published. By the way, just as an aside, scholars don’t write books