The economic point of view: an essay in the history of economic thought

Cover......Page 3
Foreword......Page 7
Introduction to the Second Edition......Page 9
Author's Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Table of Contents......Page 17
1. On Defining the Economic Point of View......Page 21
The Scope of Economics......Page 23
The Multitude of Economic Points of View......Page 25
The Controversay over Utility......Page 26
An Interpretation......Page 28
Economists and Their Definitions......Page 32
Background of the Methodenstreit......Page 34
Twentieth Century......Page 37
2. The Science of Wealth and Welfare......Page 40
The Emergence of Political Economy as the Science of Wealth......Page 42
The Science of Material Wealth......Page 49
The Science of Subsistence......Page 52
The Science of Wealth Retained......Page 58
Men Against Nature......Page 61
From Wealth to Welfare......Page 63
The Science of the Lower Side of Human Nature......Page 69
3. The Science of Avarice......Page 71
The Economic Principle......Page 77
The Economic Impulse......Page 80
Selfishness and Non-Tuism......Page 84
Economics and Mechanics......Page 87
4. Economics, The Market, and Society......Page 91
Economics and Catallactics......Page 92
Exchange and the Propensity to Truck......Page 96
Exchange and the Division of Labor......Page 97
The "Purely Formal" Concept of Exchange......Page 99
Exchange and the Economic System......Page 101
Economics, The Economy, and the Volkswirtschaft......Page 105
Economy and Society......Page 107
5. Economic Affairs, Money and Measurement......Page 111
Money, Wealth, and Exchanges......Page 112
Money as the Measuring Rod......Page 115
Money as a Universal Measuring Rod......Page 118
Measurment and Economics......Page 119
Money and Price-Economics......Page 122
Money as an Economic Institution......Page 125
6. Economics and Economizing......Page 128
The Economics of Professor Robbins......Page 129
Scarcity and Economics......Page 131
Economizing and Maximization......Page 135
The Character of Robbins' Definition......Page 137
The Breadth of Robbins' Definition......Page 139
The Formalism of Robbins' Definition......Page 141
The Nature of Ends and Means......Page 144
Given Ends and Means......Page 149
Single End and Multiple Ends......Page 153
Economics and Ethics......Page 157
The Nature of Economic Science and the Significance of Macroeconomics......Page 162
7. Economics as a Science of Human Acton......Page 166
The Sciences of Human Action......Page 168
The Praxeological View of Economics......Page 172
Max Weber and Human Action......Page 177
Acting Man and Economizing Man......Page 179
Praxeology and Purpose......Page 183
Praxeology and Rationality......Page 187
The Assumption of Constant Wants......Page 193
Praxeology, Apriorism, and Operationalism......Page 197
The Economic Point of View and Praxeology......Page 201
Notes......Page 207
Subject Index......Page 237
Author Index......Page 243