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Hans Mayer, Last Knight of the Austrian School, Vienna Branch

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Hans Mayer (1879-1955) has been portrayed either as a tragic hero or, more often, as an evil traitor who presided, as the school’s only representative at the University of Vienna, over the decline of the Austrian school in its home country for almost three decades. While from the outset his goal had been to secure the survival of the school in Vienna’s increasingly hostile academic environment, in the course of time he invested most of his energies not in his scientific work but in unending conflicts in the realm of academic politics. Thus for Mayer the school’s defense became more and more an end in itself, justifying any sacrifice on its behalf, even that of his own reputation, for example during the Nazi rule in Austria, 1938-45. This paper tells the story of this strange academic life and its repercussions for the evolution of Austrian economics.

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  • Hansjörg Klausinger, 2015. "Hans Mayer, Last Knight of the Austrian School, Vienna Branch," History of Political Economy, Duke University Press, vol. 47(2), pages 271-305, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:hop:hopeec:v:47:y:2015:i:2:p:271-305
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    1. Stefan Kolev, 2022. "Anti-democratic revolutionaries or democratic reformers? A review essay of Janek Wasserman’s The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 35(4), pages 531-546, December.

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