Was Menger Aristotelian? A Rejoinder and Clarification

Gilles Campagnolo (1)

1 AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques

How did Carl Menger read Aristotle? This debate is 'old hat' within Mengerian scholarship. Delving through the archives, new elements have been added by Emil Kauder and, more recently, by myself. Some issues raised by Ricardo Crespo are clarified in the following response. In an essay published in 2003, Crespo defended the idea that Menger is not an 'orthodox Aristotelian'. I retorted in a paper coauthored with Aurélien Lordon in 2011. Crespo resumed the exchange, summarized and modified his argument (Crespo 2022). This rejoinder aims at setting the record straight.

Keywords: Aristotle Aristotelianism Austrian school of economics Menger (Carl) Methodenstreit (dispute over methods) methodology of economics; Aristotle; Aristotelianism; Austrian school of economics; Menger (Carl); Methodenstreit (dispute over methods); methodology of economics

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Economics and Finance; Humanities and Social Sciences; Philosophy

Gilles Campagnolo. Was Menger Aristotelian? A Rejoinder and Clarification. Cosmos and Taxis, 2022, 10 (5-6), pp.88-99. ⟨hal-03896083⟩