On the modernity of Carl Menger: criss-cross views. Roundtable conversation*

Abstract

From different perspectives regarding the History of Economic Thought, the contributions to this roundtable highlight different aspects and levels of the modernity of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics, and of his importance for the development of social theory and the discipline of scientific economics. This is complemented by discussions of ambiguities and multiple meanings of modernity.

Keywords:

• Austrian economics
• Carl Menger
• modern economics
• modernity
• enlightenment
• complexity economics
• subjectivism
• value theory

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Notes

1 See also Campagnolo (2020).