Epistemological problems of economics

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition = xi
• Bettina Bien Greaves
• Preface to the English-Language Edition = xv
• Preface to the German Edition = xix
• 1 The Task and Scope Of The Science Of Human Action = 1
• Ⅰ. The Nature and Development of the Social Sciences = 1
• 1 Origin in the Historical and Normative Sciences = 1
• 2 Economics = 3
• 3 The Program of Sociology and the Quest for Historical Laws = 4
• 4 The Standpoint of Historicism = 5
• 5 The Standpoint of Empiricism = 7
• 6 The Logical Character of the Universally Valid Science of Human Action = 12
• 7 Sociology and Economics : Some Comments on the History of Economic Thought = 16
• Ⅱ. The Scope and Meaning of the System of A Priori Theorems = 21
• 1 The Basic Concept of Action and its Categorial Conditions = 21
• 2 A Priori Theory and Empirical Confirmation = 25
• 3 Theory and the Facts of Experience = 28
• 4 The Distinction between Means and Ends : The "Irrational" = 29
• Ⅲ. Science and Value = 32
• 1 The Meaning of Neutrality with Regard to Value Judgments = 32
• 2 Science and Technology : Economics and Liberalism = 34
• 3 The Universalist Critique of Methodological Individualism = 37
• 4 The Experience of a Whole and Scientific Cognition = 40
• 5 The Errors of the Universalist Doctrine = 43
• 6 "Objective" Meaning = 44
• Ⅳ. Utilitarianism and Rationalism and the Theory of Action = 47
• 1 Vierkandt's Instinct Sociology = 47
• 2 Myrdal's Theory of Attitudes = 53
• 3 The Critique of Rationalism by Ethnology and Prehistory = 56
• 4 Instinct Sociology and Behaviorism = 60
• 2 Sociology and History = 62
• Introduction = 62
• 1 The Methodological and the Logical Problem = 65
• 2 The Logical Character of History = 67
• 3 The Ideal Type and Sociological Law = 69
• 4 The Basis of the Misconceptions Concerning the Logical Character of Economics = 85
• 5 History without Sociology = 90
• 6 Universal History and Sociology = 99
• 7 Sociological Laws and Historical Laws = 101
• 8 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis in Economics = 109
• 9 The Universal Validity of Sociological Knowledge = 111
• Conclusion = 115
• 3 Conception and Understanding = 118
• 1 Cognition from Without and Cognition from Within = 118
• 2 Conception and Understanding = 120
• 3 The Irrational as an Object of Cognition = 122
• 4 Sombart's Critique of Economics = 125
• 5 Logic and the Social Sciences = 130
• 4 On the Development of the Subjective Theory of Value = 133
• 1 The Delimitation of the "Economic" = 133
• 2 Preferring as the Basic Element in Human Conduct = 135
• 3 Eudaemonism and the Theory of Value = 137
• 4 Economics and Psychology = 139
• 5 Economics and Technology = 141
• 6 Monetary Calculation and the "Economic in the Narrower Sense" = 142
• 7 Exchange Ratios and the Limits of Monetary Calculation = 144
• 8 Changes in the Data = 146
• 9 The Role of Time in the Economy = 146
• 10 "Resistances" = 148
• 11 Costs = 150
• 5 Remarks on the Fundamental Problem of the Subjective Theory of Value = 152
• 6 The Psychological Basis of the Opposition to Economic Theory = 166
• Introduction = 166
• 1 The Problem = 167
• 2 The Hypothesis of Marxism and the Sociology of Knowledge = 169
• 3 The Role of Resentment = 176
• 4 Freedom and Necessity = 179
• Conclusion = 182
• 7 The Controversy Over the Theory of Value = 185
• 8 Inconvertible Capital = 197
• 1 The Influence of the Past on Production = 197
• 2 Trade Policy and the Influence of the Past = 202
• 3 The Malinvestment of Capital = 204
• 4 The Adaptability of Workers = 207
• 5 The Entrepreneur's View of Malinvestment = 208
• Index = 211