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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Mengerian Economics
is an intriguing book that revives, reiterates, extends and broadens Carl Menger’s groundbreaking approach to economics. The chapters expand our understanding of Menger’s work by tracing its origins in philosophy and stimulate new scholarship by showing how his legacy can further illuminate contemporary issues.’ -- Per Bylund, Oklahoma State University, US
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword: Menger belongs in a museum x Mateusz Machaj 1 Carl Menger and his philosophical influences 1 Krzysztof Turowski 2 Menger’s untersuchungen and the methodological development of the Austrian School 21 Norbert Slenzok 3 Carl Menger – an unwitting revolutionary? 42 Witold Kwaśnicki† 4 Institutional spontaneity and social cooperation 78 Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski 5 Debt and the origin of money 87 Przemysław Rapka 6 Bitcoin from Menger’s perspective 106 Łukasz Jasiński 7 Carl Menger’s contribution to capital theory 118 Eduard Braun 8 Technical changes in economic development: selected issues in the context of Austrian economics 141 Robert Ciborowski 9 Perfect competition and an imperfect world: considerations on the gender wage gap in the light of Carl Menger’s theory 155 Alicja Sielska 10 Anticommons: a very brief introduction with selected applications 168 Karol Bolko Zdybel Index 182
