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Otto Neurath's economics in context
Abstract
Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was a highly unorthodox thinker both in philosophy and economics. He proposed a radically expanded scope of economic analysis that would facilitate a comparative and systematic study of the impact of a great variety of economic and political measures on a population's well-being. Neurath regarded the controversial and widely misunderstood concept of calculation in kind as an indispensable instrument for anyone (economist or politician) who sought to analyze economic relationships from a wider perspective than that of price formation under market conditions. What is the impact of alternative (economic, political or organisational) measures on living conditions? What are the appropriate methods to compare and to rationally choose among alternative measures? In Neurath's opinion, answers to these questions are crucial for every democratic government. The contributions to this sparkling new book conclude that Neurath touched on many of the most critical problems of economic theory during its formative years as a modern discipline; his economics provides insights into the foundational problems of modern economics and should encourage contemporary economic theorists to critically reflect their own hidden presumptions. Neurath's arguments continue to challenge the foundations of today's neo-liberal approach to political-economy. They have also been rediscovered by researchers in the fields of ecological economics and of sustainable development as visionary and original. His comprehensive theory of life conditions and life quality anticipated the questions development economists and the general public meet today.
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Neurath's machian Heritage compared with Schumpeter's
pp.13-36
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_2behind the scenes of the early socialist calculation debate
pp.37-59
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_3pp.61-76
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_4some reflections on Neurath's Monetary thought in the historical context of the birth of modern Monetary economics
pp.101-114
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_6interpersonal comparability
pp.115-130
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_7Otto Neurath and the museum of war economy in Leipzig, c. 1918
pp.131-139
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_8Otto Neurath's approach to a precarious relationship
pp.141-155
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_9fifty years of "two dogmas"
pp.173-182
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_11new French literature on logical empiricism
pp.183-195
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_12pp.197-224
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2007
Pages: 234
Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
Series volume: 13
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-4020-6904-8
ISBN (digital): 978-1-4020-6905-5
Full citation:
Nemeth Elisabeth, Schmitz Stefan W, Uebel Thomas (2007) Otto Neurath's economics in context. Dordrecht, Springer.