Economic writings
Subtitle: selections 1904-1945
By: Otto Neurath ; edited by Robert S. Cohen and Thomas E. Uebel ; with an introduction by Thomas E. Uebel ; translated by Robert S. Cohen ... [et al.].
Contributors: Cohen, R. S.; Uebel, Thomas E. 1952-
Series: Vienna Circle collection ;; v. 23
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
Subjects: Economics; Economics -- Sociological aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.