================= HES POSTING ========================= Ransom wrote: > Fatigue and the tricks of mind have somehow allowed me to attribute > the seminar of Karl Menger, the son of Carl Menger, to Richard Mises > > The interanimation of these communities and the economics community > is helpfully (but sketchily) discussed in This subject is extensively explored, using newly available archival materials at Duke (the Karl Menger Papers), by Robert Leonard in his paper "Logic and the Jackboot: Mathematical and Social Order in Karl Menger's Vienna, 1925-1938". The paper was given at the Veblen Society Meetings in Chicago last month, and will be presented in the regular HOPE Workshop at Duke on 10/4/96. Copies might be available from the author at the University of Quebec at Montreal. [Editor's insertion: Rob's email address is [log in to unmask]] E. Roy Weintraub, Professor of Economics Director, Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science Duke University, Box 90097 Durham, North Carolina 27708-0097 Phone and voicemail: (919) 660-1838 Fax: (919) 684-8974 E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.econ.duke.edu/~erw/erw.homepage.html ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]