Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945

✍ Scribed by Thomas E. Uebel, Robert S. Cohen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 565
• Series: Vienna Circle Collection 23
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book makes available for the first time in English a substantial part of Otto Neurath's economic writings. The essays and small monographs translated here extend from his student years to his last ever finished piece. They chart not only Neurath's varied interests in the economic history of antiquity, in war economics and schemes for the socialisation of peacetime economies, in the theory of welfare measures and social indicators and in issues of the theory of collective choice, but also show his philosophical interests emerging in his contributions to seminal debates of the German Social Policy Association. This volume shows that Neurath's important contributions to the socialist calculation debate are but one aspect of a many-sided and original oeuvre. The translations are preceded by an introductory essay by one of the editors which contextualises the selections by locating them in the various debates of the time that provided their original setting.

This book is of interest to economists, philosophers of social science and of economics as well as to historians of philosophy of science and of analytic philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Neurath’s Economics in Critical Context....Pages 1-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Interest on Money in Antiquity....Pages 111-119
Economic History of Antiquity [Excerpts]....Pages 120-152
War Economy....Pages 153-199
Serbia’s Successes in the Balkan War [1912]....Pages 200-234
State Cartels and State Trusts as Organisational Forms of the Future....Pages 235-240
The Economic Order of the Future and the Economic Sciences....Pages 241-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
On the Theory of Social Science....Pages 265-291
Interventions in Discussions of the Social Policy Association....Pages 292-298
Economics in Kind, Calculation in Kind and Their Relation to War Economics....Pages 299-311
The Conceptual Structure of Economic Theory and its Foundations....Pages 312-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
A System of Socialisation....Pages 345-370
Total Socialisation....Pages 371-404
Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind....Pages 405-465
Socialist Utility Calculation and Capitalist Profit Calculation....Pages 466-472
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
The Current Growth in Global Productive Capacity....Pages 475-505
Sociological Predictions....Pages 506-512
Inventory of the Standard of Living....Pages 513-526
Late Reflections on the Theory of Planning....Pages 527-548
After Six Years....Pages 549-555

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Methodology and the History of Economic Thought; Economic Systems; Microeconomics; Environmental Economics