Scott Scheall - How Are Carl and Karl Menger Important For Liberalism?

Alex speaks with Scott Scheall about Carl and Karl Menger and their influence on the history of economics, liberal theory, and - yes - mathematics. 

 

Further Reading:

"Karl Menger as Son of Carl Menger" - Scott Scheall & Reinhard Schumacher

https://philarchive.org/rec/SCHKMA-4 

Econlib Biography of elder Menger:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Menger.html 

1871. Principles of Economics. Translated by J. Dingwall and B. F. Hoselitz, with an introduction by Friedrich A. Hayek. New York: New York University Press, 1981.   1892. “On the Origin of Money.” Economic Journal 2 (June): 239–255.   “Mises Introduces the Austrian School,” http://mises.org/daily/3512 from Ludwig von Mises, Memoirs.   Joseph T. Salerno, “Biography of Carl Menger: The Founder of the Austrian School (1840-1921),” http://mises.org/about/3239   Biography of Karl Menger    https://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/kmenger.htm    Including the following Major Works:

• Dimensiontheorie, 1928
• "On Intuitionism", 1930, Blatter der deutschen Pilosophy
• Kurventheorie, 1932
• "The New Logic", 1933, in Krise und Neuaufbau in den Exackten Wissenschaften
• Moral Wille und Weltgestaltung, 1934.
• "The Role of Uncertainty in Economics", 1934, ZfN
• "Remarks on the Law of Diminishing Returns: A study in meta-economics", 1936, ZfN
• "The Logic of Laws of Return: A study in meta-economics", 1954, in Morgenstern, editor, Economic Activity Analysis.
• "Austrian Marginalism and Mathematical Economics", 1973, in Hicks and Weber, editors, Carl Menger and the Austrian School of Economics
• Morality, decision, and social organization : toward a logic of ethics, 1974.
• Selected Papers in Logic and Foundations, Didactics, Economics, 1979.
• Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium, 1994.   (ed. L. Golland, B. McGuinness and A. Sklar) [prev]
• "On the direction of ideas and the principal tendencies of the Vienna Mathematical Colloqium", 1998,  in E. Dierker &  K. Sigismund, editors, Karl Menger Ergebnisse eines Mathematischen Kolloquiums