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Karl Menger’s Unfinished Biography of His Father: New Insights into Carl Menger’s Life Through 1889

In: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Economists and Authoritarian Regimes in the 20th Century

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  • Reinhard Schumacher
  • Scott Scheall

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During the last years of his life, the mathematician Karl Menger worked on a biography of his father, the economist and founder of the Austrian School of Economics, Carl Menger. The younger Menger never finished the work. While working in the Menger collections at Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, we discovered draft chapters of the biography, a valuable source of information given that relatively little is known about Carl Menger’s life nearly a hundred years after his death. The unfinished biography covers Carl Menger’s family background and his life through early 1889. In this chapter, the authors discuss the biography and the most valuable new insights it provides into Carl Menger’s life, including Carl Menger’s family, his childhood, his student years, his time working as a journalist and newspaper editor, his early scientific career, and his relationship with Crown Prince Rudolf.

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  • Reinhard Schumacher & Scott Scheall, 2020. "Karl Menger’s Unfinished Biography of His Father: New Insights into Carl Menger’s Life Through 1889," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, in: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Economists and Authoritarian Regimes in the 20th Century, volume 38, pages 155-189, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rhetzz:s0743-41542020000038b009
    DOI: 10.1108/S0743-41542020000038B009
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    1. Richard Ebeling, 2023. "Carl menger on economic policy: “Exact laws,” institutional prerequisites, and economic liberalism," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 36(2), pages 331-355, June.

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