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Clarence E. Ayres and the Legacy of German Idealism

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  • Donald K. Pickens

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. Based on the Clarence E. Ayres (1891‐1972) papers at the University of Texas, this study traces the continuity among thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Veblen, Dewey, and Ayres; the latter was a leading institutional economist following Veblen's death. Publicly acknowledging his intellectual debt to Veblen and Dewey, Ayres drew from these men some idealistic assumptions as well as the historicism that is implicit in his technological determinism or instrumental theory of knowledge. Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey owed a great deal to the philosophical tradition of idealism, regardless of the devotion to naturalism in their systems. The origins of Ayres's technological theory of value are found in Veblen and Dewey writings and back of them the legacy of German idealism. The vital link was a mutual acceptance that freedom was expressed in a cultural and historical form, realized in human activity. It was a process.

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  • Donald K. Pickens, 1987. "Clarence E. Ayres and the Legacy of German Idealism," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(3), pages 287-298, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:46:y:1987:i:3:p:287-298
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1987.tb01967.x
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