Carl Menger's Lectures to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, english-deutsch

Streissler, Erich W. und Monika

ISBN 10: 1858980755 / ISBN 13: 9781858980751

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing ltd., Aldershot/Hampshire, 1994

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in GB/USA erschienene Ausgabe, Einleitung und Erläuterungen in english, die Original-Texte sind zweisprachig abgedruckt; der Wiener Professor Menger unterrichtete den Kronprinzen 1876 in Politischer Ökonomie. die Notizbücher des Kronprinzen sind ein wichtiges Zeugnis über das politisch-ökonomische Verständnis der Zeit, tadelloses, nahezu neuwertiges Exemplar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carl Menger's Lectures to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, english-deutsch
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ltd., Aldershot/Hampshire
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 1858980755
• ISBN 13: 9781858980751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Tadellos
• Dust Jacket Condition: Tadellos
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Alle Bücher

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Synopsis

In 1876, Carl Menger, then a young professor at the University of Vienna, was asked to teach the principles of political economy to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, the 17 year old only son of Emperor Francis Joseph, who was to die tragically before he could inherit the throne.

Rudolf's recently discovered Notebooks of these lectures, corrected by Menger, are a fascinating record of what the founder of the Austrian marginalist school thought worth teaching to the heir presumptive of a great power. Without referring to his own theories, Menger delivered a course on the economics of Adam Smith - as presented in the mainstream German textbooks of the time - in such a way that the Notebooks can be viewed as a key document on classical economic liberalism, pure and unadulterated. They cast new light on Menger's own theoretical discoveries, his view of government and his interpretation of classical economics.

In this important volume Rudolf's Notebooks are published for the first time both in German and an English translation. The editor's detailed introduction provides the historical and intellectual background to the Notebooks as well as a thorough analysis of classical economics and its treatment by Menger. The text is fully annotated in German and English with its surprising sources traced passage by passage.

About the Author

Edited by Erich W. Streissler, Professor of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria and Monika Streissler, Institute of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria