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By Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmitz, Thomas E. Uebel

ISBN-10: 1402069049

ISBN-13: 9781402069048

ISBN-10: 1402069057

ISBN-13: 9781402069055

Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was once a hugely unorthodox philosopher either in philosophy and economics. He proposed a notably elevated scope of financial research that might facilitate a comparative and systematic research of the effect of a superb number of monetary and political measures on a inhabitants s health. Neurath appeared the arguable and greatly misunderstood suggestion of calculation in variety as an vital software for an individual (economist or baby-kisser) who sought to research fiscal relationships from a much wider point of view than that of cost formation lower than marketplace stipulations. what's the influence of other (economic, political or organisational) measures on dwelling stipulations? What are the best the right way to examine and to rationally decide on between substitute measures? In Neurath s opinion, solutions to those questions are an important for each democratic executive. The contributions to this gleaming new booklet finish that Neurath touched on the various most crucial difficulties of monetary concept in the course of its youth as a contemporary self-discipline; his economics presents insights into the foundational difficulties of contemporary economics and will motivate modern monetary theorists to seriously replicate their very own hidden presumptions. Neurath s arguments proceed to problem the principles of this present day s neo-liberal method of political-economy. they've got additionally been rediscovered by way of researchers within the fields of ecological economics and of sustainable improvement as visionary and unique. His entire idea of lifestyles stipulations and lifestyles caliber expected the questions improvement economists and most of the people meet at the present time.

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In B. ): Unified Science, Dordrecht: Kluwer 1987, pp. 67–109 Neurath, Otto, 1973: Empiricism and Sociology, ed. by Marie Neurath and Robert S. Cohen, Dordrecht: Reidel Neurath, Otto, 1981: Gesammelte philosophische und methodologische Schriften, hg. von Rudolf Haller und Heiner Rutte, Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky (GS 1, GS 2) Neurath, Otto, 1983: Philosophical Papers 1913–1946, ed. by Robert S. Cohen and Marie. Neurath, Dordrecht: Reidel Neurath, Otto, 1991: Gesammelte bildpädagogische Schriften, hg.

In the tropics, and elsewhere, capitalism engages in over-exploitation without any disturbance. In short, for it savings would be a loss of profits. (1925b [2004, pp. 470–471]). Thus, when it comes to showing that the very logic of capitalism consists in the wrongful absolutisation of the profit motive as definitive of economic action, it is ecological incommensurability that Neurath invoked.

84 “Freeing up One’s Point of View”: Neurath’s Machian Heritage Compared 31 an explanation of our readiness to accept the law of inertia in its old form but also as a justification for doing so. For Mach, all our concepts – including scientific ones – are above all instruments that serve practical purposes, and the exactitude of these instruments is eminently important. But Mach does not think that science serves only practical ends. Mature scientific thought creates its own goals, seeks to satisfy itself, to dispose of all intellectual discomfiture.

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