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1 VIENNA CIRCLE COLLECTION HENK L. MULDER, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. BRIAN MCGUINNESS, University of Siena, Siena, Italy RUDOLF HALLER, Charles Francis University, Graz, Austria Editorial Advisory Board ALBERT E. BLUMBERG, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. ERWIN N. HIEBERT, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. JAAKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. A. J. KOX, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands GABRIËL NUCHELMANS, University of Leyden, Leyden, The Netherlands ANTHONY M. QUINTON, All Souls College, Oxford, England J. F. STAAL, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A. FRIEDRICH STADLER, Institute for Science and Art, Vienna, Austria VOLUME 23 VOLUME EDITOR: ROBERT S. COHEN

2 OTTO NEURATH ECONOMIC WRITINGS SELECTIONS Edited by THOMAS E. UEBEL University of Manchester, UK and ROBERT S. COHEN Boston University, USA With an Introduction by THOMAS E. UEBEL Translated by ROBERT S. COHEN, MARIE NEURATH, CHRISTOPH SCHMIDT-PETRI and THOMAS E. UEBEL KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW

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4 TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS NOTE vii INTRODUCTION: NEURATH S ECONOMICS IN CRITICAL CONTEXT by Thomas E. Uebel 1 PART 1. STUDIES IN ANCIENT AND MODERN ECONOMIC HISTORY Interest on Money in Antiquity Economic History of Antiquity [Excerpts] War Economy Serbia s Successes in the Balkan War [1912] State Cartels and State Trusts as Organisational Forms of the Future The Economic Order of the Future and the Economic Sciences 241 PART 2. EARLY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE On the Theory of Social Science Interventions in Discussions of the Social Policy Association 292 (I) Remarks on the Productivity of Money 292 (II) On the Role of Moral Value Judgements in Economic Science Economics in Kind, Calculation in Kind and Their Relation to War Economics The Conceptual Structure of Economic Theory and its Foundations 312 PART 3. SOCIALISATION THEORY A System of Socialisation Total Socialisation 371 v

5 vi table of contents 13. Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind Socialist Utility Calculation and Capitalist Profit Calculation 466 PART 4. ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE IN UNIFIED SCIENCE The Current Growth in Global Productive Capacity Sociological Predictions Inventory of the Standard of Living Late Reflections on the Theory of Planning 527 (I) Planning or Managerial Revolution? 527 (II) Ways of Life in a World Community 539 (III) Alternatives to Market Competition After Six Years 549 NAME INDEX 557

6 EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS NOTE In the interest of readability, stylistic features of the original texts that would appear eccentric and distracting in English have been removed. Neurath s paragraph divisions have occasionally been regularised in accord with the steps of his reasoning. His sometimes extremely liberal use of S p e r r u n g e n (a functional equivalent of italics) has been largely edited. In supplying references sparingly Neurath followed the standards of his day; where these references are significant, they have been completed as far as possible. Obvious mistakes have been silently corrected. Square brackets in the text or in the notes indicate insertions by the editors. For remarks about the dialectical context of the selections, readers are referred to the Introduction. In their selection of the chapters the editors followed, as far as was practical, plans for this volume as devised by Marie Neurath, who also provided first drafts for several of the translations featured here; however, the editors also dropped some chapters or substituted others and supplemented the selection with additional materials. It is to the memory of Marie Neurath that the editors dedicate this work. vii